On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 1:45 PM, John Croisant <jacius@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Greetings, FFI-ers
>
> I've finally released the first FFI-powered version of Rubygame! I was
> able to completely eliminate all the C code for Rubygame, which has
> already made it a lot easier for users on all platforms to install,
> since no compilation is needed anymore. And of course, there's the
> added bonus for me of being able to develop in all Ruby. :-D

Congratulations! The promise of FFI coming true!

> Gems are available on Rubyforge ("gem install rubygame"), and are
> known to work on MatzRuby (1.8.6, 1.8.7, 1.9.1) as well as JRuby
> (1.3.1, 1.4.0RC2). However, JRuby users need to first install the ffi
> stub gem [1] to resolve the gem dependencies. Also, I'm afraid JRuby
> users on Mac are out of luck until a JRuby equivalent of RSDL [2] is
> written.
>
>  [1] http://github.com/ffi/ffi-jruby
>  [2] http://github.com/knu/rsdl

I'm not clear what RSDL is actually needed for. Can you explain? The
readme and the minimal .c file was pretty limited in description.

- Charlie