From: Mohit Sindhwani <mo_mail@...>
Date: 2008-01-04T01:39:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Embedding Ruby into a Borland C++ Builder Application

Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At Fri, 4 Jan 2008 01:06:37 +0900,
> Mohit Sindhwani wrote in [ruby-talk:285846]:
>   
>>> Is there any such thing as extern "C++"? This must be a mistake in the 
>>> sources?
>>>       
>> I think it's an error - it's in win32.h - I found an earlier link that 
>> had stumbled across this as a problem.  But, in that person's case, 
>> changing it back didn't solve the problem.  Anyway, it works for me now.
>>     
>
> It's valid.  The C++ spec requires extern "C" and "C++" at
> least.  Other linkages e.g., "pascal", "fortran", "ada", etc,
> can be implementation defined.
>
>   
>> I completely agree that Developer Studio does have a lot of good things and
>>     
>
> Maybe, but Borland make is too silly, it should not be named as
> `make'.
>
>   

Haha.. I see the point you 'make'!  But, thanks both of you for your 
help.  I shall put up the instructions for making Ruby 1.8.6 work from 
within a C++ Builder application soon.  Then, I shall look for the other 
items I had on my list (performance and memory management).

Cheers,
Mohit.
1/4/2008 | 12:38 AM.