From: Jeremy Hinegardner <jeremy@...>
Date: 2009-01-14T14:44:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Finding ruby.h

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 02:20:00PM +0900, John Ky wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm building ruby extensions across many different OSes and architectures.
> 
> Does anyone know an easy way to find ruby.h on any given system?
> 
> I'm told that perl has a "perl -V" or @ENV variable which gives some paths I
> can look through for perl.h.
> 
> Does Ruby have an equivalent?  Is there a better way to find ruby.h?

This works on a couple of my systems:

    require 'rbconfig'
    loc = File.join( Config::CONFIG['archdir'], 'ruby.h')
    if File.exist?( loc ) then
      puts loc
    else
      puts "Unable to find ruby.h in #{loc}"
    end

enjoy, 

-jeremy

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 Jeremy Hinegardner                              jeremy@hinegardner.org