From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-10-02T02:59:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Help with a Windows port of a Ruby extension


On Oct 1, 2007, at 12:27 PM, Scott Mckie wrote:

> John Joyce wrote:
>> is it possibly some kind of path/dependency trouble? Maybe it's
>> expecting to see something at a path that isn't what it expects?
>> It's interesting...
>
> The paths aren't the issue.  Cygwin lets you use *NIX style paths,  
> yes.
> But the game loads both Ruby extensions without hitch, and I'm able to
> instantiate at least one of them w/o problem.  It's when I try to  
> access
> the C Data structure from /within/ the Ruby extension that I run into
> problems. The confusing thing is I can still access the C Data  
> structure
> from the main program, and it will behave as expected.
>
> I'd thought that the problem might be some weird memory protection  
> thing
> peculiar to Windows that was preventing me from accessing the class
> methods (virtual memory pages or some such junk), but I've done some
> more testing and /that/ doesn't seem to be the case, thank god.  So my
> last two ideas are that there are some compiler/linker flags that are
> causing the problem, or some weird differences between Apple's and  
> GNU's
> Objective C runtimes.
>
> Very, very frustrating.
> -- 
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
Well, good luck! That sounds like uncharted waters.
Maybe you'll have to backtrack a bit and simplify the Ruby. See what  
it will respond to.