perlquestion technojosh I come to the monks for assistance. I have a large bit of Perl code and modules I have written for our company. We are now going to try to get a bit of work somebody has done in a ruby class, integrated into my project. My ideal solution for this is some flavor of inline ruby, or otherwise accessing the ruby interpreter on the system to interact with a ruby class from within our Perl code. <p> I am on Windows 7, using AS Perl 5.14 (x86) <br> <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~gfuji/Ruby-0.07/lib/Ruby.pod">CPAN: Ruby</a> <p> I get the makefile to run successfully. It's output: <br> <code> C:\Ruby-0.07>perl makefile.pl Set up gcc environment - 3.4.5 (mingw-vista special r3) Using C:\Ruby192\bin\ruby.exe ruby 1.9.2p290 (2011-07-09) [i386-mingw32] ruby-inc: C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/1.9.1/i386-mingw32 libdir : C:/Ruby192/lib ruby-lib: -lmsvcrt-ruby191 ruby-hdr: C:/Ruby192/include/ruby-1.9.1 Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lmsvcrt-ruby191 Writing Makefile for Ruby Writing MYMETA.yml </code> </p> When I run dmake, most of the output seems benign but there are two errors near the end and it does not complete successfully: <p> <code> cp Ruby/intern.h blib\lib\Ruby\intern.h cp lib/Ruby/PerlObject.pod blib\lib\Ruby\PerlObject.pod cp Ruby/oniguruma.h blib\lib\Ruby\oniguruma.h cp Ruby/regex.h blib\lib\Ruby\regex.h cp lib/Ruby/Inspect.pm blib\lib\Ruby\Inspect.pm cp Ruby/util.h blib\lib\Ruby\util.h cp Ruby/backward/rubyio.h blib\lib\Ruby\backward\rubyio.h cp Ruby/io.h blib\lib\Ruby\io.h cp Ruby/version.h blib\lib\Ruby\version.h cp Ruby/backward/util.h blib\lib\Ruby\backward\util.h cp Ruby/dl.h blib\lib\Ruby\dl.h cp Ruby/vm.h blib\lib\Ruby\vm.h cp Ruby/encoding.h blib\lib\Ruby\encoding.h cp Ruby/backward/rubysig.h blib\lib\Ruby\backward\rubysig.h cp lib/Ruby/Run.pm blib\lib\Ruby\Run.pm cp lib/Ruby.pod blib\lib\Ruby.pod cp Ruby/backward/st.h blib\lib\Ruby\backward\st.h cp lib/Ruby/Object.pod blib\lib\Ruby\Object.pod cp Ruby/win32.h blib\lib\Ruby\win32.h cp Ruby/defines.h blib\lib\Ruby\defines.h cp Ruby/re.h blib\lib\Ruby\re.h cp Ruby/st.h blib\lib\Ruby\st.h cp Ruby/missing.h blib\lib\Ruby\missing.h cp Ruby/digest.h blib\lib\Ruby\digest.h cp lib/Ruby.pm blib\lib\Ruby.pm cp lib/Ruby/literal.pm blib\lib\Ruby\literal.pm cp Ruby/ruby.h blib\lib\Ruby\ruby.h cp lib/Ruby/autobox.pm blib\lib\Ruby\autobox.pm C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe C:\Perl\lib\ExtUtils\xsubpp -typemap C:\Perl\lib\ExtUtils\typem ap -typemap typemap Ruby.xs > Ruby.xsc && C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe -MExtUtils::Command - e "mv" -- Ruby.xsc Ruby.c C:/Perl/site/bin/gcc.exe -c -I"C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/1.9.1/i386-mingw32" -I"C:/Ruby192 /include/ruby-1.9.1" -I"C:/Ruby192/include/ruby-1.9.1/i386-mingw32" -DNDEBUG -DWI N32 -D_CONSOLE -DNO_STRICT -DPERL_TEXTMODE_SCRIPTS -DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE -DPERL_IMPLICI T_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO -D_USE_32BIT_TIME_T -DHASATTRIBUTE -fno-st rict-aliasing -mms-bitfields -O2 -DVERSION=\"0.07\" -DXS_VERSION=\"0.07\" "-IC:\Perl\lib\CORE" -DMY_RUBY_VERSION="1.9.2" -DMY_RUBY_VERSION_INT="192" Ruby.c In file included from C:/Perl/lib/CORE/win32thread.h:4, from C:/Perl/lib/CORE/perl.h:2852, from ruby_pm.h:88, from Ruby.xs:5: C:/Perl/lib/CORE/win32.h:263: warning: useless keyword or type name in empty declarat ion C:/Perl/lib/CORE/win32.h:263: warning: empty declaration C:/Perl/lib/CORE/win32.h:264: warning: useless keyword or type name in empty declarat ion C:/Perl/lib/CORE/win32.h:264: warning: empty declaration In file included from ruby_pm.h:89, from Ruby.xs:5: C:/Perl/lib/CORE/XSUB.h:513:1: warning: "access" redefined In file included from C:/Ruby192/include/ruby-1.9.1/ruby/defines.h:205, from C:/Ruby192/include/ruby-1.9.1/ruby/ruby.h:74, from ruby_pm.h:19, from Ruby.xs:5: C:/Ruby192/include/ruby-1.9.1/ruby/win32.h:197:1: warning: this is the location of th e previous definition In file included from ruby_pm.h:89, from Ruby.xs:5: C:/Perl/lib/CORE/XSUB.h:520:1: warning: "fstat" redefined In file included from C:/Ruby192/include/ruby-1.9.1/ruby/defines.h:205, from C:/Ruby192/include/ruby-1.9.1/ruby/ruby.h:74, from ruby_pm.h:19, from Ruby.xs:5: C:/Ruby192/include/ruby-1.9.1/ruby/win32.h:180:1: warning: this is the location of th e previous definition Ruby.xs: In function `XS_Ruby__Object_FIRSTKEY': Ruby.xs:472: warning: use of conditional expressions as lvalues is deprecated Ruby.xs:472: error: invalid lvalue in assignment Ruby.xs: In function `XS_Ruby__Object_NEXTKEY': Ruby.xs:494: warning: use of conditional expressions as lvalues is deprecated Ruby.xs:494: warning: use of compound expressions as lvalues is deprecated Ruby.xs:494: error: invalid lvalue in decrement dmake.exe: Error code 129, while making 'Ruby.o' </code> </p> What I am wondering, is if this is really just a code issue in the XS module? Does anyone else ever use this, or any brand of "inline ruby" style code? I have looked at the <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~neilw/Inline-Ruby-0.02/lib/Inline/Ruby.pod">Inline::Ruby</a> module, but it has even more issues with installation than this one does! (and the docs say it has only been tested on linux)<p> At the end of the day, I'm really just looking for a simple implementation of inline ruby, so if there is a better/easier/different but equal alternative that I am not considering please suggest it! <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-630086"> <a href="http://www.perlmonks.org/?node=technojosh"><i> -TJ </i> </a> </div></div>