History - rake-compiler -- Documentation

0.9.3 / 2014-08-03¶ ↑

Bugfixes:
- Fix specs to run (and pass) on Ruby 2.1 and beyond. Pull #94 [hggh]

0.9.2 / 2013-11-14¶ ↑

Bugfixes:
- Pre-load resolver to avoid Bundler blow up during cross-compilation Pull #83 [larskanis]

0.9.1 / 2013-08-03¶ ↑

Bugfixes:
- Restore compatibility with RubyGems platforms for cross-compilation (i386-mingw32 and x86-mingw32 are the same and supported)

0.9.0 / 2013-08-03¶ ↑

Enhancements:

Add support for cross-builds and multiple platforms (x86/x64). Pull #74 [larskanis]

$ rake-compiler cross-ruby VERSION=1.8.7-p371
$ rake-compiler cross-ruby VERSION=1.9.3-p392
$ rake-compiler cross-ruby VERSION=2.0.0-p0
$ rake-compiler cross-ruby VERSION=2.0.0-p0 HOST=x86_64-w64-mingw32
$ rake cross compile RUBY_CC_VERSION=1.8.7:1.9.3:2.0.0

# Rakefile
ext.cross_platform = %w[i386-mingw32 x64-mingw32]

Support for cross-platform specific options. Pull #74 [larskanis]

# Rakefile
ext.cross_config_options << "--with-common-option"
ext.cross_config_options << {"x64-mingw32" => "--enable-64bits"}

Bugfixes:
- Correct fat-gems support caused by RubyGems issues. Pull #76 [knu]
Deprecations:
- Requires minimum Ruby 1.8.7 and RubyGems 1.8.25
- Usage of 'i386-mswin32' needs to be changed to 'i386-mswin32-60'

0.9.0.pre.1 / 2013-05-05¶ ↑

See 0.9.0 changes.

0.8.3 / 2013-02-16¶ ↑

Bugfixes:
- Support FreeBSD 'mingw32-gcc' cross compiler. Closes #72 [knu]

0.8.2 / 2013-01-11¶ ↑

Bugfixes:
- Unset CC, LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS prior cross-compiling. Closes #55

0.8.1 / 2012-04-15¶ ↑

Bugfixes:
- Raise error when either make or gmake could be found. Closes #53, #54

0.8.0 / 2012-01-08¶ ↑

Enhancements:
- Invocation from command line now support extra options similar to RubyGems. Closes #4 from Pull #47 [jonforums]
```
$ rake compile -- --with-opt-dir=/opt/local
```
Bugfixes:
- Only emit cross-compilation warnings for C when `cross` is invoked. Closes #16 from Pull #48 [mvz]
- Only emit warnings when invoking cross-compilation tasks for JRuby. Pull #45 [jfirebaugh]
- Use x86 MinGW cross-compiler. Pull #49 [larskanis]

0.7.9 / 2011-06-08¶ ↑

Enhancements:
- Consistently use RubyGems features available since version 1.3.2 and avoid deprecation warnings with Rake > 0.8.7.
Bugfixes:
- Use correct platform in fake.rb. Pull #39 [kou]
- Workaround Gem::Specification and Gem::PackageTask limitations. Closes #43

0.7.8 / 2011-04-26¶ ↑

Enhancements:
- Bump default cross-ruby version to 1.8.7-p334.
- ExtensionTask now support config_includes to load additional directories.
  jfinkhaeuser
  Rake::BaseExtensionTask.new(“myext”, GEM_SPEC) do |ext|
```
ext.config_includes << File.expand_path("my", "custom", "dir")
```
  end
Bugfixes:
- Warn if compiled files exists in extension's source directory. Closes GH-35
- Workaround issue with WINE using proper build option. Closes GH-37
- Use FileUtils#install instead of cp. Closes GH-33 [Eric Wong]
- Update README instructions for OSX. Closes GH-29 [tmm1]

0.7.7 / 2011-04-04¶ ↑

Bugfixes:
- Use Winsock2 as default to match Ruby 1.9.2 library linking.

0.7.6 / 2011-02-04¶ ↑

Bugfixes:
- Prefer Psych over Syck for YAML parsing on Ruby 1.9.2. [tenderlove]

0.7.5 / 2010-11-25¶ ↑

Enhancements:
- Promoted stable version for cross-compilation to 1.8.6-p398. Closes GH-19
Bugfixes:
- Generate a fake.rb compatible with Ruby 1.9.2. Closes GH-25
- fake.rb will not try to mimic Ruby's own fake to the letter. Closes GH-28
- Expand symlinks for tmp_dir. Closes GH-24
- Silence make output during rake-compiler invocation.
- Usage of Gem.ruby instead of RbConfig ruby_install_name This solve issues with ruby vs. ruby.exe and jruby.exe

Experimental:

Allow setting of HOST during cross-compilation. This enable usage of mingw-w64 compiler and not the first one found in the PATH.

rake-compiler cross-ruby VERSION=1.9.2-p0 HOST=i686-w64-mingw32
rake-compiler cross-ruby HOST=i386-mingw32 (OSX mingw32 port)
rake-compiler cross-ruby HOST=i586-pc-mingw32 (Debian/Ubuntu mingw32)

0.7.1 / 2010-08-07¶ ↑

Bugfixes:
- Update gem files to make “gem install -t” works. Closes GH-14
- Update mocks to work under 1.8.7. Closes GH-15 [luisparravicini]
- Do not allow cross-ruby be executed under Windows. Closes GH-22
Experimental:
- Allow JRuby to compile C extensions [timfel]. It is now possible compile C extensions using latest JRuby. Offered in experimental mode since JRuby cext hasn't been officially released.

0.7.0 / 2009-12-08¶ ↑

Enhancements

Allow generation of JRuby extensions. Thanks to Alex Coles (myabc) for the contribution. This will allow, with proper JDK tools, cross compilation of JRuby gems from MRI.
```
Rake::JavaExtensionTask.new('my_java_extension', GEM_SPEC) do |ext|
  # most of ExtensionTask options can be used
  # plus, java_compiling:
  ext.java_compiling do |gem_spec|
    gem_spec.post_install_message = "This is a native JRuby gem!"
  end
end
```
Please note that cross-compiling JRuby gems requires either JRUBY_HOME or JRUBY_PARENT_CLASSPATH environment variables being properly set.

Allow alteration of the Gem Specification when cross compiling. Closes GH-3 This is useful to indicate a custom requirement message, like DLLs installation or similar.

Rake::ExtensionTask.new('my_extension', GEM_SPEC) do |ext|
  ext.cross_compile = true
  # ...
  ext.cross_compiling do |gem_spec|
    gem_spec.post_install_message = "You've installed a binary version of this gem"
  end
end

Bugfixes
- Detect GNU make independently of distribution based naming. Thanks to flori for patches.
- Usage of dup to duplicate gemspec instead of YAML dumping.
- No longer support Ruby older than 1.8.6
- No longer support RubyGems older than 1.3.5
- Force definition of binary directory and executables. Closes GH-11
- Workaround path with spaces issues using relative paths. Closes GH-6
- Removed gemspec, GitHub gems no more
Known issues
- Usage of rake-compiler under projects with Jeweler requires some tweaks Please read issue GH-73 for Jeweler: github.com/technicalpickles/jeweler/issues#issue/73
  
  For a workaround, look here: gist.github.com/251663

0.6.0 / 2009-07-25¶ ↑

Enhancements
- Implemented 'fat-binaries' generation for cross compiling (for now). Thanks to Aaron Patterson for the suggestion and original idea.
```
rake cross native gem RUBY_CC_VERSION=1.8.6:1.9.1
```
  Will package extensions for 1.8 and 1.9 versions of Ruby.
- Can now cross compile extensions for 1.9 using 1.8.x as base. Be warned: works from 1.8 to 1.9, but not if your default ruby is 1.9
```
rake cross compile RUBY_CC_VERSION=1.9.1
```
- Allow simultaneous versions of Ruby to compile extensions. This change allow 1.8.x compiles co-exist with 1.9.x ones and don't override each other.
  
  Please perform rake clobber prior compiling again.
- Allow optional source file URL for cross-compile tasks. (Thanks to deepj for the patches)
```
rake-compiler cross-ruby VERSION=1.9.1-p0 SOURCE=http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.1-p0.tar.bz2
```
Bugfixes
- Removed strict versioning for gems since it clash with fat binaries. From now on, if your gem only targets a specific version of Ruby, please indicate it in the Gem::Specification (required_ruby_version)

0.5.0 / 2009-04-25¶ ↑

Enhancements
- Allow generation of multiple gems for Windows (EXPERIMENTAL) This allows build gems for both VC6 and MinGW builts of Ruby (Thanks to Jonathan Stott for the suggestion)
```
Rake::ExtensionTask.new('my_extension', GEM_SPEC) do |ext|
  ext.cross_compile = true
  ext.cross_platform = ['i386-mswin32', 'i386-mingw32']
end
```

0.4.1 / 2009-04-09¶ ↑

Enhancements
- Target specific versions of Ruby when generating binaries. This avoids installing a 1.8.x binary gem in 1.9.x and viceversa. (Thanks to Aaron Patterson for the patches)
Bugfixes
- No longer raises error if rake-compiler configuration is missing. Not all users of a project would have it installed. (Thanks to Aaron Patterson for the patch)

0.4.0 / 2009-04-03¶ ↑

Enhancements
- Bended the convention for extension folder. Defining ext_dir for custom extension location.
```
Rake::ExtensionTask.new('my_extension') do |ext|
  ext.ext_dir = 'custom/location'         # look into custom/location
end                                       # instead of ext/my_extension
```
- Better detection of mingw target across Linux/OSX. Exposed it as Rake::ExtensionCompiler
- Display list of available tasks when calling rake-compiler script
- Track Ruby full versioning (x.y.z). This will help the compilation of extensions targetting 1.8.6/7 and 1.9.1
Bugfixes
- Better output of Rake development tasks (Thanks to Luis Parravicini).
- Proper usage of Gem::Platform for native gems (Thanks to Dirkjan Bussink).
- Don't use autoload for YAML (present problems with Ruby 1.9.1).

0.3.1 / 2009-01-09¶ ↑

Enhancements
- Download cross-ruby source code using HTTP instead of FTP.
- Disabled Tcl/Tk extension building on cross-ruby (helps with 1.9).
Bugfixes
- Workaround bug introduced by lack of Gem::Specification cloning. Fixes DM LH #757.
- Use proper binary extension on OSX (reported by Dirkjan Bussink).
- Ensure lib/binary task is defined prior clear of requisites.

0.3.0 / 2008-12-07¶ ↑

New features
- Let you specify the Ruby version used for cross compilation instead of default one.
```
rake cross compile RUBY_CC_VERSION=1.8
```
Enhancements
- Properly update rake-compiler configuration when new version is installed.
- Automated release process to RubyForge, yay!
Bugfixes
- Corrected documentation to reflect the available options

0.2.1 / 2008-11-30¶ ↑

New features
- Allow cross compilation (cross compile) using mingw32 on Linux or OSX.
- Allow packaging of gems for Windows on Linux or OSX.
Enhancements
- Made generation of extensions safe and target folders per-platform
Bugfixes
- Ensure binaries for the specific platform are copied before packaging.