From: Kyle Schmitt <kyleaschmitt@...>
Date: 2009-06-04T01:28:44+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby2c?

I did eventually get it working once, but I forget how I did it (and
that box is gone now, so I can't easily look it up).  I also got
ruby2cext working, which was a lot easier.  For what I wanted, ruby2c
wasn't worth the headache.

I recall two things about ruby2c though:
1) it translates the ruby in your code to C, but not any included code
or libs.  At least that's all it did for me.  The end result was I
could only translate rather simple methods, or small pieces of code to
C, not whole programs.
2) it only worked in 1.8.x

ruby2cext (http://ruby2cext.rubyforge.org/) was fairly easy to get
going, even with rather complex programs/libraries.  The resulting
code has to be run in ruby (just load it as a library I think..), but
it worked pretty well.

--Kyle