From: "Ralph Pöllath" <lists@...>
Date: 2003-10-05T18:07:21+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyCocoa problem: No such file to load -- osx/objc/cocoa

Hi,

I'm trying to get RubyCocoa to work with ruby 1.8.0 on MacOS 10.2.8.

I followed Simon's advice and unchecked libruby-static.a in the 
RubyCocoa framework project file. Then I reinstalled both RubyCocoa and 
ruby, but no go. The RubyCocoa tests still fail with the now familiar 
error message:
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/osx/cocoa.rb:12:in `require': No 
> such file to load -- osx/objc/cocoa (LoadError)

Unfortunately, I'm not very familiar with the C toolchain, and so far 
couldn't find out more about this problem.

Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance,
-Ralph.


Simon wrote:
> I figured this out. Below is the email I sent to the contact email for
> RubyCocoa but I didn't get any reply. Anyway, all you need do is open
> the Framework project file in ProjectBuilder and clear the linking of
> libruby-static by deselecting the check box. But this does mean that
> when you build apps you will need to explicity link in libruby-static.
> Hope this helps.
> ...
> The problem was that libruby-static got linked twice: once with ruby
> and once with the RubyCocoa framework. This meant that each got their
> own versions of the global variables defined in libruby-static - the
> problem being the variable rb_load_path - you prepend the Framework
> path to this in RBRuntime.m but because libruby-static was linked into
> RubyCocoa framework the newly prepended directory only goes on that
> copy of rb_load_path - not the rb_load_path used in the ruby
> interpreter. I fixed this (eventuallY - when I found the reasons) by
> removing the link of libruby-static in the framework project files.
> This worked fine - but it means that when applications are built and
> linked with the framework you also need to link libruby-static (an
> extra lib on the link line)
> ...
>
> Barry Shultz wrote:
> Hi,
>> Pardon the attachment, but this issue has been brought up before with 
>> no
>> resolution (that I know of), so I have tried to include any possibly
>> relevant info in the attached file.
>> I have been unable to get RubyCocoa to work with Ruby 1.8 on OS X (I 
>> did
>> not try to get it running with the pre-installed 1.6.7, because of
>> problems with Array#pack that I brought up last week on the ML).
>> At the end of the attached file, you'll see that RubyCocoa does not
>> successfully run its unit tests, and I get the error shown in the
>> subject. I have tried to include all relevant information about my OS
>> and my install of RubyCocoa.
>> I would be happy to provide any other information, if someone will 
>> help
>> me solve this one.