[MacRuby-devel] Troubles getting some things to work

[Mark Rada]

On 2010-09-28, at 1:22 AM, Laurent Sansonetti wrote:

> Hi Mark,
> 
> On Sep 25, 2010, at 4:36 PM, Mark Rada wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I've been working on a Ruby gem that I would eventually like to run on MacRuby, but I seem to have run into a couple of issues and have no idea what is going on. I would appreciate it if someone could take a look and see if I am not understanding something obvious.
>> 
>> The gem is a SOAP client and uses Handsoap, which depends on one of a few different http drivers, depending on what you want.
>> 
>> The default driver is curb, which does not compile successfully for MacRuby. Normally you have to compile curb with a universal binary of libcurl, so I suspect that architecture incompatibility has something to do with why the build is failing. I get the following when I try to install with macgem:
>> 
>> /usr/bin/gcc -I. -I/Library/Frameworks/MacRuby.framework/Versions/0.7/usr/include/ruby-1.9.2/universal-darwin10.0 -I/Library/Frameworks/MacRuby.framework/Versions/0.7/usr/include/ruby-1.9.2/ruby/backward -I/Library/Frameworks/MacRuby.framework/Versions/0.7/usr/include/ruby-1.9.2 -I. -DRUBY_EXTCONF_H=\"curb_config.h\"  -fno-common -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -fexceptions -fno-common -pipe -O3 -g -Wall -I/opt/local/include -g -Wall -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -o curb_multi.o -c curb_multi.c
>> curb_multi.c: In function ‘rb_curl_multi_mark_all_easy’:
>> curb_multi.c:38: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘rb_gc_mark’
>> curb_multi.c: In function ‘curl_multi_free’:
>> curb_multi.c:64: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘RHASH’
>> curb_multi.c:64: error: invalid type argument of ‘->’
>> curb_multi.c: In function ‘rb_curl_multi_mark_all_easy’:
>> curb_multi.c:38: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘rb_gc_mark’
>> curb_multi.c: In function ‘curl_multi_free’:
>> curb_multi.c:64: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘RHASH’
>> curb_multi.c:64: error: invalid type argument of ‘->’
>> lipo: can't open input file: /var/tmp//ccbAYK9V.out (No such file or directory)
>> make: *** [curb_multi.o] Error 1
> 
> It looks like this C extension is using an element of the MRI C API that we do not support yet. I am guessing it's poking at the RHASH structure, which we won't probably support any time soon.

Should I create a ticket for this?

> 
>> The fallback driver http driver is net/http, but I get a weird problem that seems to be MacRuby specific  when I try to run my test suite.
>> 
>> NoMethodError: private method `path_query' called for #<URI::HTTP:0x2005d9f00>
>>   /Library/Frameworks/MacRuby.framework/Versions/0.7/usr/lib/ruby/Gems/1.9.2/gems/handsoap-1.1.7/lib/handsoap/http/drivers/net_http_driver.rb:13:in `send_http_request:'
> 
> I believe you reported this problem on the tracker, it should be fixed in tonight's nightly build :)
> 
> Let us know if you have problems again.
> 

Yes this is now working. You have made my week! Thanks!


> Laurent
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