From: Daniel Wilkerson <daniel.wilkerson@...>
Date: 2008-03-27T11:40:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Help installing fxruby on osx

> Before I launch into the explanation of this problem, and a way to
> fix it, let me put in a plug for MacPorts. I know that you
> (apparently) had a bad experience with Fink. So did I. MacPorts, in
> my opinion, is better. I am also, personally, the maintainer of the
> FOX, FXScintilla and FXRuby ports in MacPorts and am pretty confident
> in saying that that's the easiest, lowest-hassle way to install
> FXRuby at this point.

I had the same problem with fxscintilla but I solved it by downloading 
the source for fxscintilla and building and installing it.  Here is the 
full story.  I got everything installed but it still doesn't work.

This blog entry says that others are having this problem.
http://davidrupp.blogspot.com/2008/01/installing-fox-and-fxruby-on-mac-os-x.html

He proposes a solution, giving detailed instructions with particular
special flags for:

(1) Building Fox from source, and
(2) Installing the FXRuby gem.

Step (1) worked for me.

Then I hit the fxscintilla bug again when I tried to do step (2).

cc -arch i386 -pipe -bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup -o fox16.bundle
librb.o core_wrap.o dc_wrap.o dialogs_wrap.o frames_wrap.o fx3d_wrap.o
FXRbApp.o FXRbDataTarget.o FXRbGLViewer.o FXRuby.o iconlist_wrap.o
icons_wrap.o image_wrap.o impl.o label_wrap.o layout_wrap.o
list_wrap.o markfuncs.o mdi_wrap.o menu_wrap.o scintilla_wrap.o
table_wrap.o text_wrap.o treelist_wrap.o ui_wrap.o
unregisterOwnedObjects.o -L"."
-L"/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib"
-L"/usr/local/lib" -L"/usr/X11R6/lib" -L. -arch i386    -lruby
-lfxscintilla -lFOX-1.6 -lGLU -lX11 -lXext -lz -lstdc++  -lpthread
-ldl -lm
ld: library not found for -lfxscintilla

So I downloaded and built and installed it from source.  That seemed to 
work.

Then I tried step (2) again and it seemed to work.

So everything should work.  Except when I try "require 'fox16'" in a
ruby program, I still get an error.

./fxruby1.rb:7:in `require': no such file to load -- fox16 (LoadError)

However there are now fox16 files in my system.

Macintosh-2:ruby dsw$ find /Library/Ruby -iname "*fox16*"
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/doc/fxruby-1.6.13/rdoc/files/lib/fox16
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/fxruby-1.6.13/ext/fox16
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/fxruby-1.6.13/ext/fox16/fox16.bundle
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/fxruby-1.6.13/lib/fox16
Macintosh-2:ruby dsw$

Yet no combinations of adding them to my path seem to work.

Macintosh-2:ruby dsw$ ruby -I
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/fxruby-1.6.13/ext/fox16/ ./fxruby1.rb
"the load path"
["/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/fxruby-1.6.13/ext/fox16/",
"/Library/Ruby/Site/1.8", "/Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/powerpc-darwin9.0",
"/Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/universal-darwin9.0", "/Library/Ruby/Site",
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8",
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/powerpc-darwin9.0",
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/universal-darwin9.0",
"."]
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/fxruby-1.6.13/ext/fox16/fox16.bundle:0:in
`require': no such file to load -- fox16/core (LoadError)
Macintosh-2:ruby dsw$

Though you will notice I get a slightly different error.

Now, please note that ports doesn't work either:

Macintosh-2:ruby dsw$ sudo port install rb-fxruby
Password:
Skipping org.macports.activate (rb-fxruby ) since this port is already 
active
--->  Cleaning rb-fxruby
Macintosh-2:ruby dsw$ cat fxruby1.rb && echo && ruby ./fxruby1.rb
#!/usr/bin/ruby -w
print "the load path:\n"
p $:
require 'fox16'

the load path:
["/Library/Ruby/Site/1.8", "/Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/powerpc-darwin9.0", 
"/Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/universal-darwin9.0", "/Library/Ruby/Site", 
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8", 
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/powerpc-darwin9.0", 
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/universal-darwin9.0", 
"."]
./fxruby1.rb:4:in `require': no such file to load -- fox16 (LoadError)
  from ./fxruby1.rb:4
Macintosh-2:ruby dsw$

So I have it installed with fink, gems, and ports and it still doesn't 
work.  Why do both fink and ports fail so often?  They fail more often 
than they work.

Anyway, I was enthusiastic about using FXRuby but I would be a lot more 
enthusiastic if it would actually work.


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