On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Bill Kelly wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have foo.rb and foo.so, the C-extension part of the module.
>
> Inside foo.rb, I can put, require 'foo.so', and it works fine,
> allowing other modules to say require 'foo', and have the .rb
> be loaded, which in turn loads the C-extension.
>
> I'm wondering if there's a recommended platform-independent
> way to do this?  For instance, on OS X, C-extensions end in
> ".bundle" not ".so".
>
> I wouldn't mind even saying require "foo.#{DLEXT}", if there
> were such a thing available from ruby.
>
> Is there a recommended way to have a .rb file require a C-extension file of 
> the same name in a platform-independent
> way?  Or is the preferred solution to alter the name of one
> of the two files?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill

harp:~ > ruby -r yaml -r rbconfig -e'  y Config::CONFIG  '|egrep DLEXT
DLEXT2: ""
DLEXT: so


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