From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2006-07-01T10:27:54+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] mkrf 0.1.0 released

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On 6/30/06, Kevin Clark <kevin.clark@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dan,
> Most significantly, mkrf generates -Rakefiles-, not Makefiles. Because
> I'm making Rakefiles it opens up a lot of functionalities that mkmf2
> couldn't implement easily (gem packaging, rdoc generation built in
> etc.). Also, as far as I know, mkmf2 isn't aiming for reuse of its
> code. One of my goals is to make the Availability code clean and
> simple enough that things like RubyGems can use it easily.
>
> Kev


Ah, ok. Thanks Kevin.

Dan

On 6/30/06, Daniel Berger <Daniel.Berger@qwest.com> wrote:
> > Kevin Clark wrote:
> > > 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
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Hm, what's the difference between this and mkmf2?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Dan
> >
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