Compiling OpenSees with Ruby

hugo.esquivel · Post by **hugo.esquivel** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 5:34 am

Hi Frank.

As far I know,
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OpenSees' User Interface = OpenSees Interpreter + Tcl.
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But rather than using Tcl, do you think I could compile OpenSees using the Ruby Interpreter? (Ruby is also a high programming language). Or I will have to modify some piece of code in the OpenSees Framework in order to get it work?

I mean,
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OpenSees' User Interface = OpenSees Interpreter + Ruby.
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Any comment will be greatly appreciated.

Regards.

PS:
1. I'm considering Phyton too.
2. Compilation will take place on Mac OS X 10.5.8 (Leopard).

Thank you!

Post by **fmk** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 9:39 am

there is a lot of code that needs to e changed. i am working on removing the specific reference to tcl that is provided for each class and use instead an api, e.g. something like OPS_GetInt() instead of Tcl_GetInt(). Any interpreter could then be used. Which is of course the purpose of what i am up to.

hugo.esquivel · Post by **hugo.esquivel** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 5:47 pm

Thank you! I'm glad to hear that.

So this feature will be available for version 3 or before?