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Feature #17741

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Ruby links to `objc` for convenience - this should be moved into a native ext

Added by rickmark (Rick Mark) over 3 years ago. Updated over 3 years ago.

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[ruby-core:102979]

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As a convenance to extension developers Ruby on macOS always links to libobjc. This could be better handled with a native ObjC extension so that one could require 'objc' to add this to the process.

The extension would link to libobjc and provide bindings to objc_msgSend and friends. By not linking to libobjc we can also avoid linking to libc++abi and all that entails.

This makes ruby on mac more similar to ruby when compiled on other platforms.


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ruby_final.txt (2.24 KB) ruby_final.txt rickmark (Rick Mark), 03/22/2021 07:56 PM

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Related to Ruby master - Feature #17730: Ruby on macOS transitively links to ~150 dylibsClosedActions
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Updated by mame (Yusuke Endoh) over 3 years ago

  • Related to Feature #17730: Ruby on macOS transitively links to ~150 dylibs added

Updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) over 3 years ago

As far as I remember, I've heard that libobjc needs to be linked against the executable file instead of dynamically loaded modules for startup routines.
I'm not sure if still it is true though.

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