From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-12-07T01:41:41+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27711] Re: Statically linked extensions and deferred initialization.

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:27163] Statically linked extensions and deferred initialization."
    on 01/12/01, Kent Dahl <kentda@stud.ntnu.no> writes:

|So, I've begun thinking about deferred initialization. The most
|transparant solution would be to make some map structure in extinit.c
|that maps the .so filenames (which get required, but doesn't exist), to
|the Init_[extname], and then look up in this if require fails.

Interesting.

|Are there any pitfalls I should be wary of? I don't want to go meddling
|too much inside the C code of the require method, but I need this to be
|transparent, i.e. the scripts should not need additional or changed
|require statements.
|
|Oh, and this might be a nice thing to have in the Ruby proper too, maybe
|as an option? 

Probably.  If you will come up with the solution, I will consider it
to be merged.  I'm too busy these days to provide the solution by
myself.  Sorry.

							matz.