Dependencies ------------ - ruby 1.8 or greater - automake 1.7 or greater - Qt 3.1 or greater - KDE 3.1 or greater (for korundum) CVS Snapshot ------------ If building from a CVS snapshot, this initial make command in needed: $ make -f Makefile.cvs Configure flags needed ---------------------- In order to build korundum: (this is the default in fact, so you can just use ./configure) ./configure --with-smoke="qt kde" in order to build just qtruby: ./configure --with-smoke="qt" Building the Qt extension without KDE build process --------------------------------------------------- To build the Qt.so extension, provide 'extconf.rb' with the directories where the Qt and Smoke libraries are installed: $ cd qtruby/rubylib/qtruby $ ruby extconf.rb --with-smoke-dir=/opt/trinity \ --with-qt-dir=/home/duke/src/kde/HEAD/qt-copy $ make $ make install Building on Mac OS X -------------------- Automake/autoconf don't work very well on Mac OS X, and so qmake and exconf.rb must be used instead. You can use the native Aqua/Quartz Qt/Mac version of Qt - QtRuby doesn't retquire X11. Build Qt/Mac and install in /Developer/qt. These configure flags work well: ./configure -system-zlib -qt-gif -plugin-imgfmt-mng -thread -no-stl -no-exceptions -fast Configure QtRuby and build the Smoke library: $ ./configure '--with-qt-dir=/Developer/qt' '--enable-mac' $ cd smoke/qt # Generate the Smoke library sources: $ perl generate.pl # Overwrite the automake generated Makefile: $ qmake -makefile # Build the Smoke library and install into /usr/lib $ sudo make ... # Build the 'Qt' extension: $ cd qtruby/rubylib/qtruby $ ruby extconf.rb --with-qt-dir=/Developer/qt --with-smoke-dir=/usr \ --with-smoke-include=../../../smoke $ make $ sudo make install ... # Build the rbuic tool and install into /usr/bin $ cd qtruby/rubylib/designer/rbuic $ qmake -makefile $ sudo make ... # Build the 'tqui' TQWidgetFactory extension $ cd qtruby/rubylib/designer/uilib $ ruby extconf.rb --with-qtruby-include=../../qtruby --with-qt-dir=/Developer/qt $ make $ sudo make install To get Mac menus to appear, when a QtRuby program is run from the command line, link ruby against the carbon resource lib and call it 'rubyw', see: http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?RubyTkOnOSX "Create rubyw executable for MacOS?: the Win32 distribution of ruby includes a 'rubyw.exe' so I decided to attempt creating a 'rubyw' executable: On my machine, ruby is installed at /usr/local/bin/ruby, so I did sudo cp /usr/local/bin/ruby /usr/local/bin/rubyw Using the suggestion directly above (on this page), I then ran sudo /Developer/Tools/Rez -t APPL Carbon.r -o rubyw I was then able to successfully run an example RubyTk app by running /usr/local/bin/rubyw ruby-1.8.0/ext/tk/sample/tkmenubutton.rb Everything worked as expected, and I was able to interact with the UI without any SetFrontProcess errors. " Ryutaro Amano wrote this about creating a double clickable bundle: "Thanks all, I have succeeded make rubyw. sample script is launched in foreground. And I have known the following steps to launch qt-ruby script by double clicking from Finder. As an example, I take qtruby-1.0.11/qtruby/rubylib/tutorial/t14 cd qtruby-1.0.11/qtruby/rubylib/tutorial/t14 chmod 755 t14.rb replace first line of t14.rb with "#!/usr/local/bin/rubyw" mkdir -p Shoot.app/Contents/MacOS mv t14.rb Shoot.app/Contents/MacOS/Shoot cp {cannon.rb,gamebrd.rb,lcdrange.rb} Shoot.app/Contents/MacOS cp Info.plist Shoot.app/Contents Info.plist is CFBundleExecutable Shoot CFBundleIdentifier jp.co.ryutaro.qttquit CFBundlePackageType APPL CFBundleSignature ???? echo -n "APPL????" > Shoot.app/Contents/PkgInfo Double click Shoot.app, Qt-Window appears in foreground." TQScintilla text editing widget support -------------------------------------- TQScintilla is a text editing widget with syntax highlighting for a number of languages including ruby. It can be downloaded from here: http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/qscintilla/download.php Use the '--enable-qscintilla=yes' configure option to build QtRuby with TQScintilla support. The classes in a 'Qext::' module, with names such as Qext::Scintilla.