[MacRuby-devel] MacGem and C FFI recap for newbie?

Matt Aimonetti mattaimonetti at gmail.com
Tue May 26 16:07:49 PDT 2009


That's correct, FFI support is expected in MacRuby 0.5 and eventually C
extension support.
Personally, I use obj-c dynlibs instead of frameworks but it shouldn't
matter.

- Matt

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Charles Turner <vze26m98 at optonline.net>wrote:

> Hi all-
>
> I poked around the MacRuby wiki and mailing list, and think I have this
> straight. Could someone confirm, deny or clarify:
>
> The current MacGem app works with pure Ruby Gems, but not those with
> compiled C components?
>
> So the FFI Gem currently won't work with MacGem?
>
> If I want to use a C dylib like libsndfile with MacRuby, the easiest way to
> go is to create an Objective-C Framework to wrap around the dylib?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Charles
>
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