# Compile architecture-specific, portable ruby **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [October 31, 2009, 2:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/compile-architecture-specific-portable-ruby/178238 "2009-10-31T14:15:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sean\_OSDonnell](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Sean\_OSDonnell](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Sean_OSDonnell)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2009, 2:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/compile-architecture-specific-portable-ruby/178238/1 "2009-10-31T14:15:21Z")
Hello, I am trying to put together a compiled, standalone version of ruby that I can drop into a user directory from a portable drive. Think: classroom setting with twenty, un-networked OSX 10.4/PPC machines. I want to compile once on one of these machines, then tarball it up and copy it out to the user’s home directory on each of the other computers. I then update the user’s PATH (e.g., /Users/student/local/ ruby) to find this version of ruby. Here’s how I build it now, which isn’t quite working: ruby-1.87-src\> ./configure --prefix=/Users/teacher/local ruby-1.87-src\> make && make install It’s built in my local directory, which I tarball and then copy out to /Users/student/local on the other PPCs. But, when I try to run it from the other computer, I get this error: ==start dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: \_ruby\_init\_stack Referenced from: /Applications/MKSAP15/RoR/Ruby/bin/ruby Expected in: /usr/lib/libruby.dylib dyld: Symbol not found: \_ruby\_init\_stack Referenced from: /Applications/MKSAP15/RoR/Ruby/bin/ruby Expected in: /usr/lib/libruby.dylib Trace/BPT trap =end Thoughts? I guess the high-level question is this: Are there additional flags that I need to pass to `configure` to build a self- contained, architecture-specific version? Thanks, Sean ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_OSDonnell](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Sean\_OSDonnell](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Sean_OSDonnell)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2009, 7:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/compile-architecture-specific-portable-ruby/178238/2 "2009-10-31T19:58:28Z")
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 10:00:05PM +0900, Sean O’Donnell wrote: > Here’s how I build it now, which isn’t quite working: > dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: \_ruby\_init\_stack > Referenced from: /Applications/MKSAP15/RoR/Ruby/bin/ruby > Expected in: /usr/lib/libruby.dylib > > dyld: Symbol not found: \_ruby\_init\_stack > Referenced from: /Applications/MKSAP15/RoR/Ruby/bin/ruby > Expected in: /usr/lib/libruby.dylib > > Trace/BPT trap > > =end These are errors from the linker on the other PPC. When you built ruby it put the path to the shared library in the executable, and the file /usr/lib/libruby.dylib does not exist on the student’s machine. > Thoughts? I guess the high-level question is this: Are there > additional flags that I need to pass to `configure` to build a self- > contained, architecture-specific version? Built a fully staticly linked ruby instead. If you plan on using zlib or openssl in your teaching you’ll need to build them and put them in the tarball too. Edit the ext/Setup file in the ruby distribution tarball to turn on the ‘nodynamic’ option and uncomment each extension you would like compiled statically. Then run : ``` ./configure --disable-shared --prefix=/Users/student/local/ruby make && make install ``` Then I believe you’ll be a step closer. Doing this will disable the dynamic loading of extensions, so I’m assuming that you will not later deploy gems with extensions on top of this. enjoy, -jeremy ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_OSDonnell](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Sean\_OSDonnell](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Sean_OSDonnell)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2009, 8:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/compile-architecture-specific-portable-ruby/178238/3 "2009-10-31T20:01:27Z")
Sean O’Donnell wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to put together a compiled, standalone version of ruby > that I can drop into a user directory from a portable drive. > […] Why not use JRuby? ## Best, Marnen Laibow-Koser [http://www.marnen.org](http://www.marnen.org) removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_OSDonnell](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Sean\_OSDonnell](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Sean_OSDonnell)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2009, 11:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/compile-architecture-specific-portable-ruby/178238/4 "2009-10-31T23:46:10Z")
On Oct 31, 2:55 pm, Jeremy H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > =end > > openssl in your teaching you’ll need to build them and put them in the > > Jeremy H. removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > Thanks - I may go this way. However, if I were to continue with a non- > static version, how would I force the path to point to the desired > shared library? Like this? ./configure --prefix=/Users/student/local --libdir=/Users/student/ local In the version I’ve built, I can see libruby.dylib in the /Users/ student/local/lib directory. It was my intention to keep these shared libraries contained within the build. I guess the executable just wasn’t pointing to it. I’m glad you mentioned that I cannot deploy w/extensions on top of the statically built ruby. I need to use sqlite3-ruby, which may fall into this category. Sounds like I’ve got some experimenting to do. Thanks, Sean ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_OSDonnell](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Sean\_OSDonnell](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Sean_OSDonnell)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2009, 1:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/compile-architecture-specific-portable-ruby/178238/5 "2009-11-01T01:56:07Z")
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 07:40:13AM +0900, Sean O’Donnell wrote: > > statically. > > Thanks - I may go this way. However, if I were to continue with a non- > > static version, how would I force the path to point to the desired > > shared library? Like this? > > ./configure --prefix=/Users/student/local --libdir=/Users/student/ > local I think just doing: ``` ./configure --prefix=/Users/student/local ``` will do the trick. > In the version I’ve built, I can see libruby.dylib in the /Users/ > student/local/lib directory. It was my intention to keep these shared > libraries contained within the build. I guess the executable just > wasn’t pointing to it. Yup, that would be the case. > I’m glad you mentioned that I cannot deploy w/extensions on top of the > statically built ruby. I need to use sqlite3-ruby, which may fall into > this category. Sounds like I’ve got some experimenting to do. I think running this configure you’ll probably be okay. And you can prepare all the items you need for you students this way too. Go ahead and install the gems you need by executing the /Users/student/local/bin/gem command and they should all be installed relative to the /Users/student/local on you instructors machine, then you can tar up the /Users/studient/local dir for your students and distribute it. And the other email in this thread mentions jruby, which is also an option, depending on the other gems you are planning on using. enjoy, -jeremy