From: Lorien Dunn <loriend@...>
Date: 2002-04-17T19:58:27+09:00
Subject: visual c, ruby, and fastcall hassle

Hello all,
	today I tried to embed ruby in a computer game I'm working on. It uses 
Auran's Jet 3d engine (www.auranjet.com), which is closed source, and 
requires projects using it to be compiled with fastcall enabled. Fastcall is 
a calling convention that does not permit variable numbers of arguments for 
the sake of speed. However, by prefixing every function prototype in "ruby.h" 
and "intern.h" with __cdecl I succeeded in building the app. 
	Then I tried writing a linked in extension in c, and got a type error from 
the function ptr argument of "rb_define_method": it wanted a VALUE _cdcel (*) 
(VALUE, VALUE), and was getting a VALUE __fastcall (*) (VALUE,VALUE), so I 
declared my function as _cdecl and recieved the same error!

Any ideas?
Thanks,
Lorien Dunn