From: Kevin Clark <kevin.clark@...>
Date: 2006-06-28T20:55:28+09:00
Subject: [ANN] mkrf 0.1.0 released

I'm pleased to announce that tonight marks the first release of mkrf,
a library which generates Rakefiles to build C extensions to Ruby and
is aimed at a replacement for mkmf. This is a Ruby Summer of Code
project (http://code.google.com/soc/ruby/about.html).

Though the gem doesn't seem to have propogated yet, it should be
availble through rubygems, and until then you can download the gem
directly at http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/11283/mkrf-0.1.0.gem

The code does have RDoc included which I hope explains things well
enough. Please do send questions and bug reports my way. I'll have a
project setup at advisr.org where you can submit bug reports as soon
as I tweak its source to properly scope accounts, but until then email
is fine.

**Please do try mkrf with your extensions. Please do send feedback.**

As for syntax, it can be as simple as:

  Mkrf::Generator.new('libtrivial_so.bundle')

or more complex:

  Mkrf::Generator.new('libxml_so.bundle', '*.c') do |g|
    g.include_library('socket','socket')
    g.include_header('libxml/xmlversion.h',
                     '/opt/include/libxml2',
                     '/usr/local/include/libxml2',
                     '/usr/include/libxml2')
  end


-- 
Kevin Clark
http://glu.ttono.us