From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2006-01-15T04:05:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Compile Ruby9i on Windows

On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 17:38:19 +0100, Bertram Scharpf  
<lists@bertram-scharpf.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> in my company we use Oracle and Windows :-(.
>
> Now, I would like at least to start for some quick-and-dirty
> solutions to use Ruby. Maybe my boss could be convinced it's
> worth a closer look.
>
> I'm afraid, I don't succeed to compile the
> <http://ruby9i.sourceforge.net/> library at all. I get loads
> of errors the more I try. I easily managed to compile my own
> OCI (Oracle from C) programs with MSVC (by the way: C
> plugins, too).
>
> I would build a project file of my own but as I see the Ruby
> installation includes ".so" files. I don't know what
> restrictions to use to build DLLs that can be renamed to
> that type.
>
> Could anyone please give me a short description of what is
> to do?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Bertram
>
>


A .so is a .dll. They're compiled basically the same way, just remember to  
export the Init_* functions. (Or for qnd jobs, export all functions, you  
can always optimize later). If you have the time, you might want to give  
the file "rbconfig.rb" a read, pretty much everything the extension  
configuration scripts use is there.

Also, a little bit of POSIX goes a long way. A lot of Makefile generators  
count on you using a sh-compatible shell, POSIX CLI tools, and gcc  
compiler flags. You might try switching to a cygwin or mingw build of ruby  
if you plan to use extensions a lot.

David Vallner