From: Jano Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2007-06-12T05:15:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Doing rake-like stuff with mkmf?

On 6/9/07, Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com> wrote:
> Following the pattern I've seen in widespread use, I use rake in my
> Ruby projects for most high-level tasks (running specs, building gems
> etc) and mkmf to make C extension makefiles.
>
> mkmf works great for the simple case where you just want to compile
> some C files and link to some libraries; the default behaviour seems
> to handle most things automatically.
>
> But what if I want to do some more sophisticated rake-like stuff where
> I manually specify dependencies? For example:
>
> * Start with ANTLR grammar file "Grammar.g"
>
> * Whenever this file is updated, have to run ANTLR on it and this
> regenerates new "GrammarLexer.c" and "GrammarParser.c" files
>
> * In this case want to rebuild the extension
>
> Is there a way to do this using mkmf? Or do I have to manually tweak
> the generated Makefile myself?
>
> Cheers,
> Wincent

There's mkrf (http://rubyforge.org/projects/mkrf) aimed at replacing
mkmf generated makefile with rakefile.