From ruby-talk  Wed Sep 15 10:28:57 2004
From: Emmanuel Touzery <emmanuel.touzery () wanadoo ! fr>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 10:28:57 +0000
To: ruby-talk
Subject: Re: [Q] What does Ruby/DL do?
Message-Id: <4148197C.9020701 () wanadoo ! fr>
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Gavin Sinclair wrote:

>The Ruby/DL website (http://google...) doesn't have much by way of
>explanation.  I've seen it claimed recently that it can be used _instead
>of_ C library bindings, or some such.  Can anyone elaborate?
>  
>
with ruby/DL, you describe the API of the C function that you wrap. You 
give the location of the dll/so. and then you call the function. It's a 
simple as that! Problem of course comes with structures and this kind of 
things.
ruby/DL requires no compilation, no C external library, and is portable 
across systems.

check the "Ruby/DL: Cross-platform Dynamic Linking" paragraph in 
http://whytheluckystiff.net/articles/rubyOneEightOh.html

of course the problem is the severely lacking documentation.

emmanuel