From: Su Zhang <su.comp.lang.ruby@...>
Date: 2012-01-22T10:06:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Interfacing with a C static library ?

On 1/21/2012 12:16 PM, David Unric wrote:
 > Hi,
 >
 > just curious what is a simplest way to use C functions compiled into a
 > static library (libc<something>.a) from Ruby ?

Without touching Ruby's runtime library, I don't think there is any easy 
way to use it other than wrapping the static library with a dynamic 
library. If the static library can somehow be used in Ruby at runtime, 
the static library will need to be called a dynamic library...