On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Wayne Meissner <wmeissner@gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/12/12 rogerdpack <rogerpack2005@gmail.com>:

>>> in windows, this code fails:
>>>
>>> require 'ffi'
>>>
>>> module Hello
>>>   extend FFI::Library
>>>   attach_function 'puts', [:string], :int
>>> end
>>>
>>> Hello.puts("Hello, World")

>>
>> appears it needed an extra
>> ffi_lib 'crtdll'

>
> I just updated the samples to use FFI::Library::LIBC as the library.
> That resolves to 'libc.so.6' on linux, and 'msvcrt.dll' on windows.
>
> Can someone verify that blindly using msvcrt.dll like that won't cause
> problems on windows?
>

It will only affect Ruby compiled with Visual Studio, since they link
to msvcr80 or msvcr90.

For the time being, that would work, but maybe an alternative can be cooked.
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Luis Lavena
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