From: "Gennady F. Bystritsky" <gfb@...>
Date: 2002-12-11T09:33:50+09:00
Subject: Re: mac os x eruby


----- Original Message -----
From: "FUJIMOTO Hisakuni" <hisa@imasy.or.jp>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 3:45 PM
Subject: Re: mac os x eruby


> At Tue, 10 Dec 2002 20:02:54 +0900,
> Tom Sawyer wrote:
> > so i have a question. i'm looking at hosting a wiki on an mac xserve and
i
> > started doing some development work on a ruby based wiki. what's the
status
> > of eruby on mac os x? last i heard she's still barfing due to a dynamic
> > linking issues.
>
> To make eruby, libruby is necessary. However, Mac OS X 10.2
> (Jaguar) does not include libruby somehow. So you need to build

Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) does include libruby and it is OK, as mod_ruby uses
it and works perfectly well. The problem with eruby lays in how dynamic
linking is performed in OS X. When eruby.so is dlopened by Apache Ruby
symbols (rb_*) are not found despite the fact that they are already present
in the process (loaded by mod_ruby, actually libruby.a is compiled into
mod_ruby during build). I think that to fix it libruby must be made shared
and both mod_ruby and eruby compilation changed to refer it. Than on load a
linker will be able to locate symbols for both. I haven't given it a try
yet, maybe sometime next week.

> libruby with ruby source in order to make eruby. I don't use
> eruby, so I have not tried this. But maybe I think so.
>
> If this is too hard, you can use Erb written only with Ruby. Erb
> is useful.
>
> Regards,
> --
> FUJIMOTO Hisakuni
>
>
>