Failed to build gem native extension

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Failed to build gem native extension

veered opened this issue 12 years ago · 3 comments

I am trying to use curb (https://github.com/taf2/curb) in a shoes app (https://gist.github.com/Veered/5032155). When I load the app into shoes I get this error http://imgur.com/ULWGBCM. I am running OSX 10.8.2 and installed Shoes using the binary provided at http://shoesrb.com/downloads

For debugging purposes I tried compiling shoes and was met with something like 300 errors that I couldn't figure out how to get rid of. So hopefully there is a solution that doesn't require me to deal with that steaming pile of ughh.

P.S. How do you copy things from the Shoes console?

Answer 1 · 2013-02-25T21:26:33.000Z

If you want to use gems with C extensions, you need to build a custom Shoes with the gem embedded in it. I'm embarrassed to report that there's no documentation on how to do this. :/

shoes/shoes development is frozen as we work on Shoes 4, which is located at shoes/shoes4. You might want to give it a try.

Answer 2 · 2013-02-25T22:32:05.000Z

Hmm... ok thanks. Can shoes4 deal with native extensions?

Answer 3 · 2013-02-25T22:55:35.000Z

The current backend runs on jruby, so no extensions. There are alternatives though. When we get an MRI backend using Qt or Cairo/Pango, then extensions ought to work.