From: Lyle Johnson <lyle@...>
Date: 2003-01-09T10:35:50+09:00
Subject: Re: OT: apple x11

Brennan Leathers wrote:

> I mention it here because I've been wanting to try the FOX toolkit. 
> maybe it could now be built more easily than with XDarwin on Macintosh 
> OS X.

FOX (the C++ library) already works OK on Mac OS X with XDarwin, 
although perhaps the performance will be better with Apple's X server 
implementation. For some notes about building FOX under Mac OS X, I'd 
refer you to this page:

     http://www.fifthplanet.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Mac_OS_X

Alas, the problem we're seeing with FXRuby doesn't seem to be related to 
X11 at all, but rather some obscure issue related to dynamically loading 
the FXRuby extension module (bundle) at runtime. In other words, the 
code compiles and links fine, but when you do:

     require 'fox'

it crashes the Ruby interpreter. I suspect the solution will boil down 
to some magical combination of compiler and linker options, but I 
haven't hit on it yet.