ruby/rb-rcairo-1.6.2 Does not provide dylib to link against

[trac.macports.org@…]

This package does not provide a dylib to link against (it only provides a loadable bundle). After a lot of experimentation with the source, I found that adding libtool -dynamic $(OBJS) -arch_only i386 -L/opt/local/lib -lruby -lcairo -lpthread -ldl -lm -o librbcairo.dylib to the Makefile will produce librbcairo.dylib, which I can link against.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Assigning to maintainer.

[kimuraw (kimura wataru)]

This port "rb-rcairo" provides an extension module for Ruby. To provide a dynamic library, like you said, is not Ruby's way. You can load the bundle with the following code.

from RUBY:

  require 'cairo'

from C:

  include <ruby.h>
  include <rb_cairo.h>
    :
  rb_require("cairo");

or link libcairo and use C API of libcairo.

I do not think the librbcairo.dylib is needed. Please tell me what do you want to do.

[trac.macports.org@…]

You're right, I think I was trying to use Ruby in ways not meant to be. Thanks for the detailed reply. You can close this ticket.

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