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    • thomthomT Offline
      thomthom
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      I clicked Fork when I was under SUExt - and it forked the whole repository. I guess there is no way to fork a part of a repository... ?

      Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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      • thomthomT Offline
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        Clicking "Pull Request" and I get a message:

        "Oops! The TBD:master branch is already up-to-date with thomthom:master β€” maybe you want to try something else?"

        ....I should stop clicking now... 😳

        Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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        • tbdT Offline
          tbd
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          fork - it creates a duplicate of the entire project in your account. you can change only in one subdirectory if you want.
          pull request - you make the changes in your forked project and send a pull request so I can integrate your changes

          you need to add some changes to send a pull request to me first.

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          • thomthomT Offline
            thomthom
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            Right. Should I leave the other folders alone?

            Just thinking it might be nice with a repo just for C Extension - nothing else. Just to keep it clean and simple. ❓

            Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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            • tbdT Offline
              tbd
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              https://github.com/sketchucation is ready to accept projects πŸ˜‰

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              • thomthomT Offline
                thomthom
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                @unknownuser said:

                https://github.com/sketchucation is ready to accept projects πŸ˜‰

                Right'o. So can we create an "SketchUp Ruby C Extension" project? Then start adding stuff.

                Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                • tbdT Offline
                  tbd
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                  pull requests away - https://github.com/sketchucation/suext πŸ˜‰

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                  • thomthomT Offline
                    thomthom
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                    I just got a very simple Hello World example working under OSX. Will create another example with some basic Ruby object interactions and expand a little on my comments. Then I will upload it to a repository. Think I'll focus on the step by step for OSX first to get the structure up. Then Windows - seem to be a bit more tweaking to get that working.

                    Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                    • Chris FullmerC Offline
                      Chris Fullmer
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                      This sounds great Thom and TBD and everyone one else who gets involved. I keep being afraid that I might need to learn some of this for my upcoming work.

                      Chris

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                      • thomthomT Offline
                        thomthom
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                        What you got cooking?

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                        • thomthomT Offline
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                          Right - attempting to build on Windows.

                          I have Visual C++ Express 201 installed and I'm trying to build using nmake. Getting some errors:
                          Build Error.png

                          I'm not sure what that means. Though I have a suspicion I need to specify the path to where windows.h is located... Though I don't know where to do so...

                          Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                          • thomthomT Offline
                            thomthom
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                            Uploaded my WIP at: https://bitbucket.org/thomthom/sketchup-ruby-c-extension/

                            Working on OSX 10.5.

                            Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                            • thomthomT Offline
                              thomthom
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                              Note for self: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/hoanga/2006/12/14/getting-a-ruby-c-extension-to-compile-on-windows/

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                              • thomthomT Offline
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                                Think I got one step further. This thread mentions that vcvars32.bat needs to be run from the prompt: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/Vsexpressvc/thread/325b5459-c469-40d0-bf6d-e3356a2f14cd/

                                And this (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6622869/problem-with-nmake)

                                So after I did that I got a different error. Missing crt file...


                                Build Error 02.png

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                                • thomthomT Offline
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                                  ( Apologies for those with the know-how - I will be posting lots of silly stuff as I work through this. Posting to make a record of what I am doing. "Thinking out loud". )

                                  Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                                  • thomthomT Offline
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                                    Got it working!

                                    Uncommented a #pragma comment(lib, "crt.lib"); I had. TBD's SUExt project had a reference to it. Which is what I based my project on. Seeing how it also referred to #pragma comment(lib, "msvcrt-ruby18.lib"); I just tried to see what happened if I removed the ref to crt.lib. Everything worked fine after that point.

                                    Now I wonder what the other lines do:

                                    #pragma comment(lib, "kernel32.lib") #pragma comment(lib, "gdi32.lib") #pragma comment(lib, "user32.lib") #pragma comment(lib, "shell32.lib")

                                    I'm looking at this tutorial: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/hoanga/2006/12/14/getting-a-ruby-c-extension-to-compile-on-windows/
                                    It made no reference to any of this. ( what is it? Is it really required? )

                                    I'm guessing #include <windows.h> is required though.

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                                    • thomthomT Offline
                                      thomthom
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                                      Now... I'd like to find a way to make any output from extconf.rb and make/nmake put everything is a separate directory - for each platform.

                                      Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                                      • thomthomT Offline
                                        thomthom
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                                        Huh... I removed all of that stuff completely, as http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/hoanga/2006/12/14/getting-a-ruby-c-extension-to-compile-on-windows/ made no reference to it at all. Worked fine without. Guess it was required due to the way the Pelles C project was set up... ❓

                                        Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                                        • thomthomT Offline
                                          thomthom
                                          last edited by

                                          Hey Chris, when we get around to writing up the step by step instructions, are you willing to be a guinea pig?

                                          Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                          List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                                          • Chris FullmerC Offline
                                            Chris Fullmer
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                                            Absolutely!

                                            Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
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