fxruby-announce

[Fxruby-announce] [ANN] FXRuby-1.0.14 Now Available

[<ly...@kn...>]

I am pleased to announce the latest release of FXRuby, the Ruby language
bindings for the FOX GUI toolkit. FOX is a C++-based toolkit for developing
graphical user interfaces easily and effectively. It offers a wide, and
growing, collection of widgets, and provides state-of-the-art facilities
such as drag-and-drop, selection, as well as OpenGL widgets for 3-D
graphical manipulation. FOX also implements icons, images, and
user-convenience features such as status line help and tooltips.

Please see the comments on the home page concerning any problems with this
release, or the change log:

    http://www.fxruby.org/doc/changes.html

to see what has changed since the previous release.

The FXRuby home page is here:

    http://www.fxruby.org

and the source tarball can be downloaded here:

    http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fxruby/FXRuby-1.0.14.tar.gz

A binary installer for Windows, compatible with the mswin32-based versions
of Ruby 1.6.7 for Windows, is available for download here:

    http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fxruby/FXRuby-1.0.14-ruby167.exe

and a Linux RPM (for Ruby 1.6) will soon be available for download here:

    http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fxruby/FXRuby-1.0.14-1.i386.rpm

Note that this release of FXRuby depends on FOX version 1.0.x, which can be
downloaded from the FOX downloads page here:

    http://www.fox-toolkit.org/download.html

Please feel free to send me any questions or comments, and watch this space
for future announcements!

Lyle

[Fxruby-announce] Re: [ANN] FXRuby-1.0.14 Now Available

[Ian M. <ia...@ca...>]

On Wed 16 Oct 2002 at 05:32:11 +0900, ly...@kn... wrote:

> I am pleased to announce the latest release of FXRuby, the Ruby language
> bindings for the FOX GUI toolkit.

The last few versions no longer build for me. I get this:

FXRuby.cpp:258: cannot convert `VALUE' to `void *' for argument `1' to `rb_gc_mark (void *)'
make: *** [FXRuby.o] Error 1
setup failed
'system make' failed
try 'ruby install.rb --help' for usage


Any idea what's going on here?

This is on Ruby 1.6.7, but with the header file mods needed for
compilation.

Ian
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RE: [Fxruby-announce] Re: [ANN] FXRuby-1.0.14 Now Available

[Lyle J. <ly...@kn...>]

> The last few versions no longer build for me. I get this:
> 
> FXRuby.cpp:258: cannot convert `VALUE' to `void *' for 
> argument `1' to `rb_gc_mark (void *)'
> make: *** [FXRuby.o] Error 1
> setup failed
> 'system make' failed
> try 'ruby install.rb --help' for usage
> 
> 
> Any idea what's going on here?
> 
> This is on Ruby 1.6.7, but with the header file mods needed 
> for compilation.

The corrected prototype for rb_gc_mark() [from the latest CVS sources
for Ruby 1.6] is:

	void rb_gc_mark(VALUE);

and so you should "fix the fix" accordingly. You are absolutely correct
that in FXRuby releases 1.0.12 and earlier, the instructions were to
change the prototype to expect a void* argument, which was consistent
with the implementation of rb_gc_mark() at that time. When this
prototype was "officially" corrected in the Ruby 1.6 sources, I changed
the build instructions accordingly -- but I failed to make a big deal
about it in the change history for the 1.0.13 release (my oversight).