From: Chuck Remes <cremes.devlist@...>
Date: 2010-03-12T03:35:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby::DL vs Ruby::FFI


On Mar 10, 2010, at 11:37 PM, Aston wrote:

> ________________________________
> From: Charles Oliver Nutter <headius@headius.com>
> To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
> Sent: Wed, 10 March, 2010 8:12:11 PM
> Subject: Re: Ruby::DL vs Ruby::FFI
> 
> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Daniel Berger <djberg96@gmail.com> wrote:
>> FFI will build on Windows, so long as you're using mingw and gcc.
>> Actually, FFI won't build on any platform without gcc at the moment as
>> far as I know, so if you were thinking of building it with the Sun
>> Studio Compiler or the HP-UX compiler, for example, you're out of
>> luck.
> 
> JRuby supports FFI on Windows just fine.
> 
> - Charlie
> 
> JRuby is of course an excellant option for us, but it can still improve if it starts supporting win32ole
> we need win32ole since we are required to parse some MS apps generated *.xml files
> and they are generated by MS DOM impl, sometimes REXML just errors out and MSXML does it fine

Here's a project that is providing the beginning of win32ole support for jruby [1]. Please try it out with your application to see if it works. File tickets or provide patches for broken or missing functionality.

cr

[1] http://github.com/bpmcd/win32ole