Re: [OpenBabel-scripting] Open Babel-Ruby (almost)

[richard a. <ric...@ya...>]

--- Geoffrey Hutchison <ge...@ge...>
wrote:

> 
> On Oct 10, 2006, at 2:16 AM, richard apodaca wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to get Ruby scripting to work with Open
> > Babel-2.0.2 and SWIG on Linux.
> 
> What version of SWIG are you using? I'm glad to see
> the progress  
> you've made, but certainly previous versions of the
> Perl and Python  
> wrappers uncovered various bugs with SWIG itself.

1.3.27 on Mandriva Linux 2007. Looks like there is
also a 1.3.29 on SF.

> > With a little tweaking (I needed to add #include
> > <math.h> at the top of the .cxx file), I was able
> to
> > compile openbabel_wrap.cxx against my installed
> > OB-2.0.2 library using make.
> 
> Good to know. It should be possible to inject this
> into the SWIG output.
> 
> > In the case of OBAtom, the offending code is at
> the
> > very start of the class stanza:
> >
> > cOBAtom.klass = rb_define_class_under(mRob,
> "OBAtom",
> > ((swig_class *)
> >
>
SWIGTYPE_p_OpenBabel__OBNodeBase->clientdata)->klass);
> 
> Since the Ruby support in SWIG is relatively new and
> continually  
> improving, I'd suggest grabbing the latest SWIG from
> CVS and giving  
> that a spin first:
> http://www.swig.org/cvs.html

I'll give that a shot.

> If that doesn't work, let's submit this as a SWIG
> bug and see what  
> happens. It's often hard for me to follow the SWIG
> auto-generated code.

You and me both.

> As far as getting autoconf building working, I'll
> see if I can't get  
> that working soon. It turns out that I was missing
> some packages.
> 
> Cheers,
> -Geoff
> 


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