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installing Quickfix with Ruby 1.9on OS X 1.5.4download ruby 1.9

 sudo su (or add a sudo where appropriate)

svn co http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/trunk /usr/local/src/ruby19

./configure --program-suffix=-trunk --prefix=/usr/local/ make make install

#temporary move ruby bin, you can reverse it after building quickfix

mv /usr/bin/ruby /usr/bin/ruby-osx

ln -s /usr/local/bin/ruby-trunk /usr/bin/ruby

#go to /usr/local/src or wherever you want the quickfix sources to stay#HEAD is currenty broken. i used the newest version where something in the ruby dir was changed

svn co -r 1939 https://quickfix.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/quickfix/trunk/quickfix qf1939

cd qf1939

./bootstrap

./configure --with-ruby

./make

./make install

#if you get errors the following bugs havent been fixed yet:#patch your /usr/local/include/ruby-1.9.0/ruby/ruby.h

#patch QuickfixRuby.cpp

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< #include "ruby/io.h"

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> #include "rubyio.h"

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<       printf( "%s\n", RSTRING_PTR(message) );

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>       printf( "%s\n", RSTRING(message)->ptr );

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<       printf( "%s\n", RSTRING_PTR(message) );

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>       printf( "%s\n", RSTRING(message)->ptr );

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<       printf( "%s\n", RSTRING_PTR(message) );

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>       printf( "%s\n", RSTRING(message)->ptr );

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<       printf( "%s\n", RSTRING_PTR(message) );

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>       printf( "%s\n", RSTRING(message)->ptr );

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<         printf( "%s\n", RSTRING_PTR(message) );

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>         printf( "%s\n", RSTRING(message)->ptr );

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<         printf( "%s\n", RSTRING_PTR(message) );

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>         printf( "%s\n", RSTRING(message)->ptr );

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<         printf( "%s\n", RSTRING_PTR(message) );

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>         printf( "%s\n", RSTRING(message)->ptr ); 

#place a symlink

sudo ln -s /usr/local/include/ruby-1.9.0/i386-darwin9.1.0/ruby/config.h /usr/local/include/ruby-1.9.0/i386-darwin9.1.0/config.h

#try to ./make and ./make install again

irb-trunk

and

require 'quickfix_ruby'

YAY!  1.9 porting notes:http://boga.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/ruby-19-porting-notes/ 

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