Hello,
I have finished the first draft of “ooo_extract”. A program to extract/search data
from OpenOffice.org files. I am putting up a project website explaining more clearly
how it works.
I am writing the section explaining what Ruby is and where you can get it.
Q1: Am I right to assume that Ruby 1.8.0 should provide zlib in all platforms?
Q2: I have a link to the Ruby source, and to the one-click Windows installer. Is
there an RPM I can get also? What should I do about Macs? I know that OS X comes
with Ruby. Is it version 1.8.0? Does it come with zlib? If not, where can I get a
binary Mac installer?
When the page is done I’ll make an announcement.
Cheers,
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Mathematics Dept. | “To understand recursion, you must first
UMD, College Park | understand recursion”.
Alright, good to know. I have mentioned that on the website. This brings up another
point:
Does Mac OS X have zlib? Does the one-click Windows installer provide zlib?
I now that OS X comes with Ruby, but it won’t be version 1.8.0, correct? Does OS X
come with everything needed to compile Ruby? I imagine it does not.
Cheers,
Daniel.
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On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 04:42:21PM -0600, Lyle Johnson wrote:
Daniel Carrera wrote:
Q1: Am I right to assume that Ruby 1.8.0 should provide zlib in all
platforms?
Well… The ‘zlib’ extension module depends on the zlib library
(http://www.gzip.org/zlib) being installed at build time. I think this
is pretty much a given on Linux, but probably not so for other flavors
of Unix (say, Solaris). For those platforms, one would want to first
download and install the zlib library, then configure, build and
install Ruby 1.8.0. Otherwise the Ruby build will just skip over the
build and installation of the ‘zlib’ extension module.
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Daniel Carrera | OpenPGP KeyID: 9AF77A88
PhD grad student. |
Mathematics Dept. | “To understand recursion, you must first
UMD, College Park | understand recursion”.