Re: Building extensions into static libraries

From	Alex Young <alex@blackkettle.org>
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Subject	Re: Building extensions into static libraries
Date	Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:38:13 -0500
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Luis Lavena wrote in post #992613:
> On Apr 13, 12:20pm, Alex Young <a...@blackkettle.org> wrote:
>>
>> neither do I know where else to look.
>>
>
> That that is why I asked what you're targeting/aiming at.
>
> If you want to generate an static library of your extension, then you
> can't rely on mkmf.
>
> mkmf is aimed to generated shared libraries to be loaded by Ruby.
>

Ok, some more details: I'm trying to embed a ruby interpreter into a
static-linked binary, along with some additional binary extensions from
rubygems.  This works for the extensions in stdlib, whose Makefiles get
a STATIC_LIB entry of $(TARGET).a thanks to mkmf.rb.  I don't see how,
though.  The top-level Makefile following a ./configure in the ruby
source tree contains this:

EXTCONF       = extconf.rb
..
extconf:
        $(MINIRUBY) -run -e mkdir -- -p "$(EXTCONFDIR)"
        $(RUNRUBY) -C "$(EXTCONFDIR)" $(EXTCONF) $(EXTCONFARGS)

I can't see where EXTCONFARGS is set, or I'd just copy that.  I don't
see any obvious settings in the existing extconf.rb files either.

> For that to work you will need to create a Makefile (or adapt the one
> generated by mkmf) to generate a static library.

Going by the stdlib extensions, I don't think that's the case, but you'd
know better than me.

<snip>
> $ gcc -c mylib.c -o mylib.o
>
> $ ar rcs libmylib.a mylib.o

I might be able to get away with sidestepping the extensions' Makefiles
and
just do a

  $ find ext/ -name "*.o" | xargs ar rcs libwhatsit.a

but I imagine that would break horribly for reasons I haven't thought
of.

--
Alex

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Building extensions into static libraries Alex Young <alex@blackkettle.org> - 2011-04-12 15:21 -0500
  Re: Building extensions into static libraries Luis Lavena <luislavena@gmail.com> - 2011-04-12 13:34 -0700
    Re: Building extensions into static libraries Alex Young <alex@blackkettle.org> - 2011-04-13 10:20 -0500
      Re: Building extensions into static libraries Luis Lavena <luislavena@gmail.com> - 2011-04-13 14:54 -0700
        Re: Building extensions into static libraries Alex Young <alex@blackkettle.org> - 2011-04-14 00:38 -0500

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