From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2005-11-06T10:43:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Compiling C extensions with MSVC

Hi,

At Sun, 6 Nov 2005 06:54:41 +0900,
Eric Hofreiter wrote in [ruby-talk:164395]:
> This might be a bit nit-picky but the Init doesn't need to be named the same as
> the .c file necissarily.  It needs to be named the same as the class or Module
> that Ruby will be loading from your .so. I haven't tried this but I would
> assume if you had multiple modules defined in one c file you'd need an
> Init_<module_name> for each one the link step would fail if any were absent.  I
> doubt you'll ever run into, it's just something to file away.

Ruby doesn't know what class or module (even nothing) will be
defined in an extension.  Just its filename.

-- 
Nobu Nakada