From: Martin Stannard <martin@...>
Date: 2002-01-10T21:33:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Fixing RUDL C extension and Ruby for Visual C

Hello Danny,

Thursday, January 10, 2002, 11:03:06 PM, you wrote:

DvB> Hello all,

DvB> A few days ago I've tried to get my extension library to work with Visual
DvB> C (on win98). Here are a few things that went wrong:

....

DvB> ... the results can be found on http://rudl.froukepc.dhs.org/ including
DvB> the VC Ruby 1.6.6 build and a log of what I did to compile everything.

DvB> Danny

I built RUDL a couple of months ago with Ruby1.6.5 on win2k with vc6.0. It
works really well. If anyone wants to have a play around with the SDL
library I'd recommend RUDL - it's lot's of fun.

Here's a transcript of the build process:

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E:\otherscode\ruby\thirdparty\rudl-0.5.1>vcvars32.bat
Setting environment for using Microsoft Visual C++ tools.
E:\otherscode\ruby\thirdparty\rudl-0.5.1>ruby extconf.rb
checking for main() in -lpthread... yes
checking for Mix_OpenAudio() in -lSDL_mixer... yes
checking for SDL_mixer.h... yes
checking for IMG_Load() in -lSDL_image... yes
checking for SDL_image.h... yes
checking for FT_Init_FreeType() in -lfreetype... yes
checking for TTF_Init() in -lSDL_ttf... yes
checking for SDL_ttf.h... yes
checking for SDL_Quit() in -lSDL... yes
checking for main() in -lSDLmain... yes
checking for SDL.h... yes
creating Makefile

E:\otherscode\ruby\thirdparty\rudl-0.5.1>nmake

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility   Version 6.00.8168.0
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1988-1998. All rights reserved.

        cl -DIMPORT -nologo -DNT=1 -Zi -MD -O2b2x -G5 -I. -Id:/rubywin32/lib/ruby/1.6/i586-mswin32 -I. -Id:/rubywin32/include -DHAVE_SDL_MIXER_H -DHAVE_SDL_
IMAGE_H -DHAVE_SDL_TTF_H -DHAVE_SDL_H -c rudl.c
rudl.c
##########
Snipped out lots of warnings and build info....
##########

        cl -DIMPORT -nologo -DNT=1 -Zi -MD -O2b2x -G5 -Id:/rubywin32/lib/ruby/1.6/i586-mswin32 -I. -Id:/rubywin32/include -DHAVE_SDL_MIXER_H -DHAVE_SDL_IMAG
E_H -DHAVE_SDL_TTF_H -DHAVE_SDL_H -c SDLMappy.cpp
SDLMappy.cpp
        set LIB=d:\rubywin32\lib;D:\MICROS~1\VC98\LIB;D:\MICROS~1\VC98\MFC\LIB;D:\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\lib
        cl -LD -DIMPORT -nologo -DNT=1 -Zi -MD -O2b2x -G5 -o RUDL.so rudl.obj rudl_audio.obj rudl_cdrom.obj rudl_events.obj rudl_joystick.obj rudl_keyboard.
obj rudl_mouse.obj rudl_rect.obj rudl_sfont.obj rudl_timer.obj rudl_ttf.obj rudl_video.obj SDL_gfxPrimitives.obj SDL_rotozoom.obj SFont.obj rudl_mappy.obj S
DLMappy.obj mswin32-ruby16.lib SDLmain.lib SDL.lib SDL_ttf.lib freetype.lib SDL_image.lib SDL_mixer.lib pthread.lib -link /INCREMENTAL:no /EXPORT:Init_RUDL
   Creating library RUDL.lib and object RUDL.exp


E:\otherscode\ruby\thirdparty\rudl-0.5.1>nmake install

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility   Version 6.00.8168.0
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1988-1998. All rights reserved.

RUDL.so -> d:/rubywin32/lib/ruby/1.6/i586-mswin32/RUDL.so
chmod 0555 d:/rubywin32/lib/ruby/1.6/i586-mswin32/RUDL.so

E:\otherscode\ruby\thirdparty\rudl-0.5.1>

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I've got the following libs in the rudl dir:

 freetype.lib
 pthread.lib
 SDL.lib
 SDLmain.lib
 SDL_image.lib
 SDL_mixer.lib
 SDL_ttf.lib
 SGE.lib

 
-- 
Best regards,
 Martin                            mailto:martin@optushome.com.au