howdy! i'm doing some network i/o with macruby, and wanted to use the CF API's so they play nicely with a run loop on a worker thread. to that end, i found http://code.google.com/p/cocoaasyncsocket/ which is a nice delegate-based cocoa wrapper on said API's however, i'm having trouble making use of them in macruby. my initial naive attempt was to just throw the .h and .m files into my project. with this, i got an 'AsyncSocket' class in ruby, but the selectors defined in the header weren't available (and as such, it was unusable) i then tried creating a private framework, following the instructions at: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPFrameworks/Task... /apple_ref/doc/uid/20002258-106880-BAJJBIEF this works, and i can now say: framework 'AsyncSocket' and it works fine. however, i run into the same problem, none of the selectors defined in the header are available. i looked through the macruby source, and saw that when the 'framework' directive is encountered, in addition to adding the class, it looks for the BridgeSupport file. i had thought it was optional, but perhaps not? so i tried generating a .bridgesupport file using: gen_bridge_metadata -f AsyncSocket.framework -c -fobjc-gc-only (was dumping to stdout just for testing) but then that process never finished. a control-c reveals: C/usr/bin/gen_bridge_metadata:338:in ``': Interrupt from /usr/bin/gen_bridge_metadata:338:in `do_cpp' from /usr/bin/gen_bridge_metadata:45:in `path' from /usr/bin/gen_bridge_metadata:1692:in `scan_headers' from /usr/bin/gen_bridge_metadata:1690:in `map' from /usr/bin/gen_bridge_metadata:1690:in `scan_headers' from /usr/bin/gen_bridge_metadata:520:in `collect' from /usr/bin/gen_bridge_metadata:1957 from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:785:in `initialize' from /usr/bin/gen_bridge_metadata:1891:in `new' from /usr/bin/gen_bridge_metadata:1891 and looking at that line in the source, its waiting on a cpp compilation, but that's failing with: cc1: error: AsyncSocket.framework/Headers/AsyncSocket.h: not a directory ... which is valid, since its a header file, not a directory. the command its trying to run is: /usr/bin/cpp-4.0 -D__APPLE_CPP__ -include /usr/include/ AvailabilityMacros.h -F"" "AsyncSocket.framework/Headers/ AsyncSocket.h" 2>/tmp/.cpp.err ... before i keep barking up the BridgeSupport tree.. is that the right path? or is there a simpler way to use an Objective-C class that's not from an Apple-supplied framework easily? thanks!! -pete -- (peter.royal|osi)@pobox.com - http://fotap.org/~osi