I’m trying to enable panel optimisation in my plugin and the code to do this properly is exceedingly complex so I’ve been trying to track down some code that already exists for this… I’ve have managed to track down a couple of c++ libraries that supposedly will do what i’m looking for. One in partic…

See this topic about using the Ruby Fiddle library to load external binary libraries: http://forums.sketchup.com/t/export-dll-not-in-exporters-folder/14345/4)

Building a Ruby C extension is well suited for using C/C++ libraries. We have example projects for Visual Studio and Xcode matching the setup we use in-office: GitHub - SketchUp/ruby-c-extension-examples: Ruby C extension examples Especially if you are doing complex calculations you will also find …

I’ve been trying to get that example ( GitHub - SketchUp/ruby-c-extension-examples: Ruby C extension examples ) to work with the 64 bit version of SketchUp 2016. When I try to build a 64 bit version of the .so it throws a bunch of errors. And of course the 32 bit versions are giving me the following …

The version of Ruby included in the GitHub example predates VS2015, as you can tell by the _MSC_VER value expected by the ruby headers. I think we had manually upgraded those to VS2013 but have not done so for VS2015. If you can get it to compile, we’d love to see your changes be contributed back to…

Hm… after some hunting, it looks like I may have to stick with VS2013 for now. Apparently there is an outstanding bug where you can’t build Ruby with VS2015. Bug #11118: Unable to build Ruby with Visual Studio 2015 RC - Ruby master -... Redmine

Thanks for the link. It makes sense since VS2015 changes the VC runtime DLL organization pretty drastically.

So if I understand, VS2013 can be used to compile this example. VS2015 can be configured as a front-end for the VS2013 build/compile/link tool chain. But since I never had VS2013 installed, I would need to install it so it is available to VS2015. Not really a question I guess, just thinkin out loud…

Actually the example was compiled with VS2010, not VS2013. So I went back to VS2013, but realized I had to rebuild Ruby 2.0 for VS2013 as the library in the example is for VS2010. I tried to do that in Windows 10… and it failed. Took the files over to a Windows 7 machine and was able to rebuild R…

Correct, the examples where originally VS2010. I got a branch with VS2013 tweaks, but I don’t think I pushed it back because I messed up something else in the configs. https://github.com/thomthom/ruby-c-extension-examples/tree/VS2013 The actual commit: Adding Vis…

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You can keep using VS2015 if you want as long as you don’t update the compiler for the project.

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