From: Jason Roelofs <jameskilton@...>
Date: 2009-12-15T03:27:32+09:00
Subject: [ANN] rb++ / rbgccxml 0.9.1

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What is rb++ / rbgccxml?

  Rb++, rbgccxml, and rice compose a suite of tools that make wrapping C++
libraries into
  Ruby extensions as simple as possible. This is built as a replacement for
SWIG-Ruby.

What's New

  * Full 1.9 support through the entire stack!
  * MinGW / MSYS build support on Windows.

  rb++:
    * Updated to work with the Rice::Director changes
    * Fixed a bug where rb++ wasn't using any superclass on classes with
multiple superclasses
    * Generated extension handles exceptions cleaner

    * Various other small bug fixes and tweaks


  rbgccxml:
    * Switched parsing from libxml-ruby to nokogiri
    * Fixed crash on encountering <Union>, but no real handling of the type
yet.
    * Fixed a bug with older gcc versions on dealing with anonymous
enumerations


Project

  Documentation: http://rbplusplus.rubyforge.org

  rb++:     http://github.com/jameskilton/rbplusplus
  rbgccxml: http://github.com/jameskilton/rbgccxml


Installation

  This single command will grab the whole stack needed for rb++ to work.

    gem install rbplusplus

  The stack includes four libraries: rb++, rbgccxml, gccxml_gem, and rice


rb++

  Rb++ makes it almost trivially easy to create Ruby extensions for C++
library.
  In the simplest of cases, there is no need to ever touch C++, everything
is done
  in a very simple and clean Ruby API.



rbgccxml

  RbGCCXML allows one to easily parse out and query C / C++ code.
  This library uses GCC-XML to parse out the C / C++ code into XML, and then
nokogiri
  to parse and query that XML.



gccxml_gem

  GCC-XML (www.gccxml.org) is an application that takes takes the parse tree
of C / C++
  and constructs a very parsable and queryable XML file with all related
information.

  This gem includes a binary build of GCC-XML for supported platforms,
  to make it trivially easy to install. Platforms currently supported are:

    * Linux 32 & 64 bit
    * Mac OS X
    * Windows via MinGW / MSYS


Rice

  The Ruby Interface for C++ Extensions, it provides a C++ API for working
with ruby. More information
  available at its project page:

    http://rice.rubyforge.org


Notes

  Released under the MIT licence.

  For those familiar with py++ / pygccxml, the similarities are in function
only.
  Rb++ / rbgccxml were written from scratch to take advantage of the Ruby
language to it's fullest.

  Bugs, patches, feature requests, et al should be posted to the
corresponding project's Issues page on github.

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