From: Benjohn Barnes <benjohn@...>
Date: 2006-12-10T23:39:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Show your support for Rubinius!


On 7 Dec 2006, at 16:53, Wilson Bilkovich wrote:

> 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.

Am I right that Rubinius:

	1) Compiles Ruby directly to assembly language, and
	2) Is actually written in Ruby, so can self host?

Because that would be cool :) Although, for 1, doesn't it need a lot  
of work to target other processors, unless you're making use of an  
existing intermediate language (c for instance, or something inside  
the gcc compiler)?

Cheers,
	Benjohn