From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2007-10-27T08:40:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Building an extension in C++

Hi,

At Sat, 27 Oct 2007 06:25:00 +0900,
Gary wrote in [ruby-talk:276038]:
> Although when I look at the Makefile it has the following line:
> 
> CC = gcc

mkmf.rb in 1.8 doesn't support C++.

Perhaps make has default macro CXX and a rule for C++.  But C++ runtime
library isn't linked by default using gcc, you'll need to add the
library in extconf.rb explicitly, like as:

  have_library("stdc++")

-- 
Nobu Nakada