From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-10-03T02:51:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Calling an existing method with RubyInline - how?

On Sep 30, 2006, at 4:37 PM, Daniel Berger wrote:
> On 9/30/06, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:
>> On Sep 29, 2006, at 9:49 PM, Daniel Berger wrote:
>>> How do you call an existing function from an included header file  
>>> using RubyInline?  Do I have to wrap it in a 'built' function?
>>
>> From your example, probably:
>>
>> require 'inline'
>>
>> class Foo
>>    inline do |builder|
>>      builder.include "<test.h>"
>>      builder.add_compile_flags "-ltest"
>>
>>      builder.c_singleton <<-EOF
>>        char * foo_test_version() {
>>          return test_version();
>>        }
>>      EOF
>>    end
>>
>>    class << self; alias version foo_test_version; end
>> end
>
>
> Thanks.  Is there any way to avoid having to write wrappers for  
> existing functions?  If not, could it be added as a feature?
>
> I'd like to be able to just do this:
>
> inline{ "return test_version();" }

Inline doesn't have anything to read the header files to figure out  
the types...

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