We don't really have a choice, the C API does not offer all the features we need and we also need to follow the new LLVM changes internally. Hopefully, the LLVM team is always helping us :-)

I wouldn't expect you to use the C API internally, but it's convenient to wrap it with FFI. That's how bindings were created for e.g. Lua and Ocaml.

Linkage may also be problematic since my FFI bindings depend on LLVM dylibs. I'm not sure how they would work with MacRuby yet.

It will very likely collide at runtime... until we un-export all symbols (but the C extension ones) from the link phase, which should happen in theory for our next release, 0.6.

That sounds promising. Thanks for the explanation.

Best,

Jeremy

Laurent

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