Re: [Rubycocoa-talk] packaging ruby within an RC app

[Eloy D. <elo...@gm...>]

Oh and also please try to build some gems that have C extensions and
check if they also build as universal, like: hpricot & libxml

Eloy

On 7/17/07, Eloy Duran <elo...@gm...> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Well it took a bit longer than I'd hoped, but I'm actually too busy
> atm to play with these things :)
>
> Another problem came to my attention when discussing some things with
> the guy that made the rubyosx package (thanks Jon for finding that
> one). Which is an endian issue.
> Anyways, this has also been fixed now after studying Apple's patches
> to ruby 1.8.2.
>
> So please try this from source, because I'm indeed doing this al with macports.
> Obviously you might want to also pass a --prefix option to configure.
>
> Patches: http://superalloy.nl/misc_files/rubycocoa/ruby-1.8.6-thread_hooks-universal-patches.zip
>
> $ patch -p0 < patch-thread-hooks
> $ patch -p0 < patch-universal
> $ CFLAGS="-arch ppc -arch i386" LDFLAGS="-arch ppc -arch i386"
> ./configure --enable-shared --enable-pthread --without-tk
> --disable-dependency-tracking
> $ make all
>
> Check the output of:
> $ file ruby
> And also of:
> $ file .ext/universal-darwin8.0/openssl.bundle
>
> They should both give something like:
> openssl.bundle: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures
> openssl.bundle (for architecture ppc):  Mach-O bundle ppc
> openssl.bundle (for architecture i386): Mach-O bundle i386
>
> Once Laurent has written how to include ruby in a application bundle,
> I think it might be a good option to add a patch-and-compile-ruby
> option or something like that to standalonify.... Any ideas on this?
>
> Cheers,
> Eloy
>
> On 7/17/07, Tim Perrett <he...@ti...> wrote:
> > That would be great Laurent :)
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Tim
> >
> >
> > On 16 Jul 2007, at 16:22, Laurent Sansonetti wrote:
> >
> > > I will write an article in the Wiki about this, since this is a
> > > recurrent question.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Laurent
> > >
> >
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