Help to create a Ruby extension in C

hi…
i just followed the peter cooper’s tutorial on How to create a Ruby
extension in C in under 5 minutes in the rubyinside.com.
folowng the tutorial i create extconf.rb and MyTest.c .
i installed the cygwin.

in that command prompt i given command =>$ ruby extconf.rb

after giving the command it created the makefile in to my folder.

after that i given command => $ make

it creates MyTest.o file and mytest(this file type is Apache Loadable
Module)

and no errors…

it has not created the .so file into my folder…

In irb when i give require ‘mytest’

the irb doesnot display anything…

what is the problem…and what i m doing wrong…

Kindly Help Me out…

Newb N. wrote:

it creates MyTest.o file and mytest(this file type is Apache Loadable
Module)

Possibly would be a DLL for Windows?

In irb when i give require ‘mytest’

the irb doesnot display anything…

Can you paste exactly what you see? If it returns “true” then the
extension was loaded correctly. Or did it crash IRB, i.e. you didn’t
even get a prompt back?

Brian C. wrote:

Newb N. wrote:

it creates MyTest.o file and mytest(this file type is Apache Loadable
Module)

Possibly would be a DLL for Windows?

In irb when i give require ‘mytest’

the irb doesnot display anything…

Can you paste exactly what you see? If it returns “true” then the
extension was loaded correctly. Or did it crash IRB, i.e. you didn’t
even get a prompt back?

thank you…it actaully created .so file…
but when i give require command it gives me true…
but want to know wat it does when i give require ‘mytest’ command…
and when i give command like require ‘MyTest’ command it shows me
error…

what is the reason

Thanks

On Apr 16, 2009, at 00:22 , Newb N. wrote:

thank you…it actaully created .so file…
but when i give require command it gives me true…
but want to know wat it does when i give require ‘mytest’ command…
and when i give command like require ‘MyTest’ command it shows me
error…
what is the reason

the file is named “mytest.so” and you’re probably on a case sensitive
file system. I’m guessing you don’t have a file named MyTest.so
(or .rb).

look at your doco for Kernel#require to see what it does. You can use
ri for that or look it up on rubydoc or somesuch.