From: Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@...>
Date: 2006-12-08T01:53:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Show your support for Rubinius!

On 12/7/06, benjohn@fysh.org <benjohn@fysh.org> wrote:
> I'd like to know more about Rubinius, but all the info I've got on it
> are Evan's blogs on http://blog.fallingsnow.net/. Is there more info
> somewhere else?
>

#rubinius on irc.freenode.net is a good resource.

I'm going to write up an "installing and understanding Rubinius"
document, and Evan is working on some cool architectural diagrams that
we can then put on extremely geeky T-shirts.

Current dependencies (this list will be getting shorter month by month)
ruby:
  an existing install of 1.8
  sydparse
  RubyInline
  emp
  rake

external:
  glib2
  gcc 4.0 or 4.1

Right now the Makefile that bootstraps Rubinius isn't set up for other
compilers. You will need to modify it if you have something other than
gcc4.x. This is another temporary issue.  If someone wants to come
along and fix it, that would be cool. :)

As soon as the glib2 dependency is gone (soon, hopefully), I will make
sure that Rubinius builds on Windows under VC8.

After you have the dependencies installed:
rake shotgun # builds the C components
rake bk # builds the kernel
rake test_shotgun # runs the unit tests that are in 'shotgun-tests'

Currently there are some test failures, but not too many. The bytecode
is compiled and stored in the 'code-cache' directory as .rbc files.