From: Ben Giddings <bg-rubytalk@...>
Date: 2003-09-19T04:10:43+09:00
Subject: Embedded Ruby in a MSVC++ project?

Hey all,

I'm working on a project in MS Visual C++, unfortunately the code is 
completely tied to that environment and that IDE so I'm trapped.  That C++ 
code has a GUI which loads a bunch of data, then runs a given algorithm on 
each record, deciding whether it passes a test or not.  The algorithm has 
more than 100 variables with certain interdependencies, and what I'm 
working on now is a way of trying to tune the variables to get the best 
result.  This parameter tuning sounds much easier in Ruby than it does in 
C, so I'd like to use a Ruby extension to do it.

Now last night I struggled through the documentation, examples, and 
messages and managed to build a C program that uses a Ruby extension on my 
iBook in OS X.  It wasn't easy, but once I figured out what I was doing it 
worked fine.  But since Windows (and MSVC++) is so different from OS X and 
other Unixish OSes I don't know how to start with embedding Ruby in this 
environment.

Could someone give me a hand doing the same thing in MSVC++, provided it is 
possible?

Ben