From: Sean Middleditch <elanthis@...>
Date: 2002-05-07T03:39:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Embedding Ruby in C++

On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 14:36, Dossy wrote:
> On 2002.05.07, Rick Bradley <roundeye@roundeye.net> wrote:
> > At least there (I don't know how it's done w/ Ruby) if you wanted to
> > embed the Perl interpreter into a C/C++ application you included an .h
> > file in your C/C++ source, used some macros to initialize the
> > interpreter, and used some more macros to call Perl routines and pass
> > values back and forth.  You linked with -lperl (IIRC) and ended up with
> > a big gnarly binary.  This is the direction I think the original poster
> > was wanting to go -- and I'm curious how to do the same thing with Ruby
> > myself.
> 
> I'm thinking of embedding Ruby in an application but I have a
> concern:  Is the Ruby interpreter thread-safe?

Not in the least.

Massive use of global variables...

> 
> -- Dossy
> 
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