Building ClanRuby

Building ClanRuby is a relatively painless process.

What you need before you start:

Operating System (yes, you will need one of these): As I write this I have only tested ClanRuby on my own machine, which happens to be a 1 GHz Athlon running RedHat 7.3.

ClanLib: I've built ClanRuby 0.6.5a with ClanLib 0.6.5 (do you detect a pattern here?) ClanRuby will probably work with any ClanLin 0.6 version.

Ruby: As these things go, Ruby seems very stable from version to version. I have tried ClanRuby with Ruby versions 1.6.5 and 1.6.7 with no problems.

Building ClanRuby

After unpacking the source, change to the clanruby source directory:

cd ClanRuby-0.6.5a/src

Next run the ruby configuration script -- this will create a Makefile appropriate for you machine:

ruby extconf.rb

Now build ClanRuby:

make

Assuming that it the build goes well, you can install ClanRuby, making it an "official" part of you ruby install. On most systems you will have to be root to do this step:

su
password: <your password>
make install