From: John Gabriele <jmg3000@...>
Date: 2006-09-16T02:13:05+09:00
Subject: Re: building extension modules, and linking

On 9/14/06, Francis Cianfrocca <garbagecat10@gmail.com> wrote:
> If you run nm on any extension shared object, you'll generally see
> that the link-editor simply marks as unresolved the references in your
> code to functions in the Ruby runtime libraries.

Ah! Neat! Thanks for pointing that out.

> [sinp]
>
> By chance are you primarily a Java programmer? I ask because the Java
> build system is very picky about inspecting code that is referenced by
> your code, in ways that C is not.

I do some Java, but not enough to know where you're coming from in
that comment. :) I only brought up the original question because I'm
working on an extension module and wanted to know how the linker trick
was done (and also thought others would benefit from knowing as well).

---John