> LçÉettçËäº David Craine <dave / infoether.com>
> Aihe: trouble with ruby_options() on win32 and ruby 1.8.2
> 
> I'm trying to embed ruby into a win32 application; however, when 
> calling the ruby_options() method my process simply hangs.  I am trying 
> to use ruby_options() to pass the -C argument to ruby to set the 
> current directory.  My code looks like this:
> 
> UINT launchRuby()
> {
> 	char *argv[3] =
> 	{
> 		"ruby",
> 		"-C..\\Release",
> 		"test.rb"
> 	}
> 
> 	ruby_init();
> 	ruby_options(3, argv);
> 	ruby_run();
> }
> 
> My program compiles and links properly; however, when I run it it just 
> hangs right after the ruby_options() call (I've integrated some 
> diagnostic code to determine this).  This same technique worked fine on 
> OSX, so I'm wondering if there is some issue with the Windows platform. 

See http://www.ruby-doc.org/doxygen/1.8.1/eval_8c-source.html#l01345
and http://www.ruby-doc.org/doxygen/1.8.1/ruby_8c-source.html#l01104
and http://www.ruby-doc.org/doxygen/1.8.1/ruby_8c-source.html#l00425

It looks like the first argument may have to be the script name.

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