[Wxruby-users] The great MSVC wxruby-swig bug hunt!

Nick
Tue, 20 Jul 2004 09:41:30 -0000

Hi everyone,

As Kevin has just announced, wxruby-swig has been moved into CVS as a
toplevel project. It still is not in a "releasable" form yet, but it
now
builds on more systems than it doesn''t, and is moving towards
stability.
Because of the complexity of the build environment, we''re using rake
(http://rake.rubyforge.org) as a build system instead of the standard
extconf.rb file.

A lot of work has recently been put into getting wxruby-swig to build on
Windows using the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler (MSVC) tools. It now
successfully builds (or should successfully build), but it isn''t
running. We''re tracking what the problem is, but we could use some
help.

So all you ruby programmers with MSVC/wxWidgets knowledge, we''re
calling
out for help! Pull the head branch from CVS, break out the debuggers and
help us figure out whats going wrong! Are we incorrectly initializing
wxWidgets? Is SWIG generating bad code? Did we forget a semicolon? Any
help is appreciated! (This is also a good time to comment on the new
build system)

Nick

P.S. Note to MinGW programmers - wxruby-swig isn''t building on mingw
(yet). It should be working by the end of the week.