Re: [9fans] Ruby port

["Federico G. Benavento" <benavento@gmail.com>]

hola,

> One feature I like about Ruby is the ability to add libraries
> of code that contain C code.  Ruby does this through dynamic
> linking.  Since Plan 9 doesn't support dynamic linking, (and I
> am not suggesting that it be added to Plan 9), what is the
> general consensus on how to achieve similar functionality without
> resorting to dynamic linking?

ron has a hacked 8c with support for dynamic loading, he did it for
python.  I recently did an APE port of python with the standard 8c.

if I need/want a new module I just rebuild it, I have
/$objtype/lib/ape/libpython.a and a special mkfile in a Extra/ 
where I just put .c files in a dir per module, the mkfiles are smart enough
to build everything and add the init fn() calls to some initmodule()
maybe it's a bit overkill, but who knows...

lotte% ls -l /sys/src/cmd/python/Extra/
--rw-r--r-- M 241 fgb fgb  56 Nov 19 04:32 /sys/src/cmd/python/Extra/dummy.c
d-rwxr-xr-x M 241 fgb fgb   0 Dec  2 20:06 /sys/src/cmd/python/Extra/mercurial
--rw-r--r-- M 241 fgb fgb 253 Nov 19 09:36 /sys/src/cmd/python/Extra/mkfile

lotte% ls -l /sys/src/cmd/python/Extra/mercurial/
--rw-r--r-- M 241 fgb fgb 3249 Nov 19 08:03 /sys/src/cmd/python/Extra/mercurial/base85.c
--rw-r--r-- M 241 fgb fgb 7930 Nov 19 08:03 /sys/src/cmd/python/Extra/mercurial/bdiff.c

Federico G. Benavento

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