From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2007-03-29T12:22:13+09:00
Subject: Re: mkmf extconf include path

On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Christophe Mckeon wrote:

> Daniel Berger wrote:
>> On Mar 28, 7:49 pm, Christophe Mckeon <poly...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> hi,
>>>
>>> how do you set the include file path for your extension? can it be done
>>> using mkmf? right now i'm going #include "../drp.h" which is kind of
>>> ugly.
>>
>> find_header('drp.h', '..')
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Dan
>
> thanks but that doesn't work, i still get errors
>
> Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
> drp_ext_rule_engine.c:20:17: error: drp.h: No such file or directory
>
> this is what my extconf looks like:
>
> require 'mkmf'
>
> have_library 'c', 'main'
> find_header 'drp.h', '..'
> create_makefile 'drp_ext_rule_engine'
>
> and in my C file i have:
>
> #include "drp.h"
>
> but if i have:
>
> #include "../drp.h"
>
> either with or without the find_header it works fine. i am
> building through the extensions attribute of gemspec, not by hand.

you mean you are creating an extonf.rb?

-a
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