From: Alan Chen <alan@...>
Date: 2002-08-31T01:19:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Is anybody working on a ruby compiler (rb->exe)

On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 04:32:17PM +0900, Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> At Fri, 30 Aug 2002 12:33:11 +0900,
> Alan Chen wrote:
> > To answer my own question, exerb aliases the kernel require to do an
> > internal search. However, from my initial code review, extensions that
> > use rb_require end up calling rb_f_require which is just a direct
> > access of the C function. Exerb builds it's own version of ruby to
> > include in the exe anyway, so it could be patched to go to the exerb
> > require code. But should the patch be applied to ruby itself?
> 
> The latest CVS exerb patches extension libraries import symbol
> table and replaces 'rb_require' with 'rbxrequire'.
> 
> -- 
> Nobu Nakada

Thanks, I'll try the CVS version.

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