From: Simon Strandgaard <0bz63fz3m1qt3001@...>
Date: 2002-10-15T21:40:47+09:00
Subject: Re: extensions in C++ (iostream)

Kent Dahl <kentda@stud.ntnu.no> wrote:
> Simon Strandgaard wrote:
> > cc -shared -Wl,-soname,Test.so -L/usr/local/lib -o Test.so test.o -L. -lruby -lc
> 
> Doesn't look like you are linking in the C++ standard library
> explicitly.
> To my knowledge, cc doesn't do that implicitly. I think the switch is
> -lstdc++ but I am not sure as I usually use the CXX (such as g++)
> instead of CC for the linking, and I think that g++ links to the C++
> library implicitly.

ruby/ext> g++ -shared -Wl,-soname,Test.so -L/usr/local/lib -o Test.so test.o -L. -lruby -lc
ruby/ext> ruby test.rb 
test
name=hello world
ruby/ext>

It works... thanks

I would like to do this (in a nice way) from inside "extconf.rb"    but how?

regards
Simon Strandgaard