From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-05-22T23:02:42+09:00
Subject: Re: OT: pickaxe chap 17 and gcc (ruby/c)

On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 10:58:52PM +0900, Rasputin wrote:
> >  The best after is to create a file extconf.rb
> > 
> > svg% cat extconf.rb 
> > #!/usr/bin/ruby
> > require 'mkmf'
> > create_makefile('Test')
> > svg% 
> > 
> >  Then
> > 
> > svg% ruby extconf.rb 
> > creating Makefile
> > svg% 
> 
> Aah, right, that's the steps I missed. Where did you get that from?
> Is it documented anywhere?

http://www.rubycentral.com/book/ext_ruby.html

Creating an Extension
   
   Having written the source code for an extension, we now need to
   compile it so Ruby can use it. We can either do this as a shared
   object, which is dynamically loaded at runtime, or statically link the
   ... etc

Cheers,

Brian.