1.3.0 / 2025-04-13¶ ↑

• Improvements:

• GH-247: Java: Added support for the JAVA_HOME environment variable.

  • Patch by MSP-Greg

  • Patch by MSP-Greg

• Thanks:

• MSP-Greg

1.2.9 / 2024-12-31¶ ↑

• Improvements:

• GH-242: Java: Changed to the default target Java to 8.

  • Patch by Charles Oliver Nutter

  • Patch by Charles Oliver Nutter

• GH-244: Added support for double-digit version segments in Ruby version such as "2.6.10".

  • Patch by Mike Dalessio

• GH-240: Reverted "stopped to generate tasks for nonexistent files" in 1.2.8. Users must specify valid spec.files.

• Thanks:

• Charles Oliver Nutter

• Mike Dalessio

1.2.8 / 2024-10-04¶ ↑

• Improvements:

• GH-240: Stopped to generate tasks for nonexistent files.

  • Patch by y-yagi

  • Patch by y-yagi

• Thanks:

• y-yagi

1.2.7 / 2024-01-31¶ ↑

• Improvements:

• GH-236: Added support for setting required_rubygems_version for fat-gems that specify the Linux libc. [Patch by Mike Dalessio]

• Thanks:

• Mike Dalessio

1.2.6 / 2024-01-23¶ ↑

• Improvements:

• GH-232 GH-233: Changed to use require instead of copying content of rbconfig.rb for __FILE__ in rbconfig.rb. [Patch by ParadoxV5]

• Thanks:

• ParadoxV5

1.2.5 / 2023-08-03¶ ↑

• Fixes:

• GH-225: Fixed a bug that rake compile may not work on Windows. [Reported by Lukasz Suleja]

• GH-224 GH-226: Fixed a bug that 1.2.4 doesn't work on Ruby < 2.6. [Reported by Ivo Anjo] [Patch by Mike Dalessio and Akira Matsuda separately]

• Thanks:

• Lukasz Suleja

• Ivo Anjo

• Mike Dalessio

• Akira Matsuda

1.2.4 / 2023-08-01¶ ↑

• Enhancements:

• GH-221: Enabled syntax highlighting in documents. [Patch by Ryo Nakamura]

• GH-202 GH-222: Use environment variables to set install paths. [Reported by Brandon Fish] [Patch by Michael Go]

• Thanks:

• Ryo Nakamura

• Brandon Fish

• Michael Go

1.2.3 / 2023-05-30¶ ↑

• Enhancements:

• GH-217: Added support for nil in build options again. [Patch by Mike Dalessio]

• Fixes:

• GH-219: Fixed a typo in documentation. [Patch by y-yagi]

• Thanks:

• Mike Dalessio

• y-yagi

1.2.2 / 2023-05-25¶ ↑

• Enhancements:

• GH-211: Added extra_sources that is for dynamic sources. [Patch by James Tucker]

• GH-213: Stopped using --release on Java 8. [Patch by James Pavel Rosický]

• GH-215: Added support for extra options with space. [Reported by Jun Aruga]

• Fixes:

• GH-212: Fixed a typo in documentation. [Patch by Jan-Benedikt Jagusch]

• Thanks:

• James Tucker

• Jan-Benedikt Jagusch

• Pavel Rosický

• Jun Aruga

1.2.1 / 2022-12-16¶ ↑

• Enhancements:

• GH-209: Added support for RubyGems 3.3.21 or later. [Patch by Mike Dalessio]

• Fixes:

• GH-208: Fixed a typo in documentation. [Patch by Garen Torikian]

• Thanks:

• Garen Torikian

• Mike Dalessio

1.2.0 / 2022-04-15¶ ↑

• Enhancements:

• Defer requiring yaml. ruby/stringio#21

1.1.9 / 2022-01-22¶ ↑

• Enhancements:

• Add support for --release option to build JRuby extension. #200 [Reported by Pavel Rosický] [#201](github.com/rake-compiler/rake-compiler/issues/201) [Patch by Satoshi Tagomori]

1.1.8 / 2022-01-18¶ ↑

• Fixes:

• Fix wrong required_ruby_version when some RUBY_CC_VERSIONs are missing. #198 [Patch by Lars Kanis]

1.1.7 / 2022-01-04¶ ↑

• Fixes:

• Fix binary paths for staging and clobber. #197 [Patch by konsolebox]

1.1.6 / 2021-12-12¶ ↑

• Fixes:

• Fix a regression bug that Symbol can’t be used for name of Rake::ExtensionTask.new.

1.1.5 / 2021-12-12¶ ↑

• Fixes:

• Fix a regression bug that wrong install location is used when name that includes / is specified to Rake::ExtensionTask.new. #196 [Reported by konsolebox]

1.1.4 / 2021-12-11¶ ↑

• Fixes:

• Fix a regression bug that installed gem can’t be found on cross compile. #195 [Reported by Mike Dalessio]

1.1.3 / 2021-12-08¶ ↑

• Fixes:

• Fix a regression bug that wrong install location is used. #194 [Reported by Andrew Kane]

1.1.2 / 2021-12-07¶ ↑

• Changes:

• Use .tar.gz instead of .tar.bz2 for Ruby archive. #179 [Patch by Masaki Hara]

• Stop removing CC, CXX, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS environment variables for cross-build. #182 [Patch by Lars Kanis]

• Remove IronRuby related message. #184 [Patch by Thomas E Enebo]

• Suppress a warning. #185 [Patch by Olle Jonsson]

• Rename History.txt to History.md. #174 [Patch by MSP-Greg]

• Use make install instead of copying artifacts manually. #191 [Patch by Lars Kanis]

• Enhancements:

• Add support for building cross rubies in parallel. #169 [Patch by Lars Kanis]

• Use RAKE_EXTENSION_TASK_NO_NATIVE environment variable as the default no_native value.

• Add support for rake native gem without cross. #166 [Patch by Lars Kanis]

1.1.1 / 2020-07-10¶ ↑

• Changes:

• Bump the default Java bytecode to 1.7. #172 [Patch by Charles Oliver Nutter]

• Enhancements:

• Add support for finding x86_64 MinGW GCC. #164 [Patch by Lars Kanis]

• Strip cross compiled shared library automatically. #165 [Patch by Lars Kanis]

1.1.0 / 2019-12-25¶ ↑

• Bugfixes:

• Fix a bug that JavaExtenstionTask can’t build anything. #163 [Reported by Kai Kuchenbecker]

1.0.9 / 2019-12-23¶ ↑

• Changes:

• Use "-Xlint" option for JRuby native extension by default. #158 [Patch by Stephen George]

• Enhancements:

• Make customizable compiler Xlint option for JRuby native extension. #118 [Patch by Hiroshi Hatake]

• Add support for Ruby 2.7. #161 [Reported by Masaki Hara]

1.0.8 / 2019-09-21¶ ↑

• Enhancements:

• Added Rake::JavaExtensionTask#encoding= to pass the -encoding option to javac. #157 [Patch by Tiago Dias]

• Bugfixes:

• Drop EOL'd rubyforge_project directive from .gemspec. #155 [Patch by Olle Jonsson]

1.0.7 / 2019-01-04¶ ↑

• Bugfixes:

• Fix a bug that JRuby class path detection is failed on cross-compilation. #149 #151 [Reported by Chalupa Petr][Patch by Prashant Vithani]

1.0.6 / 2018-12-23¶ ↑

• Enhancements:

• Stop to make unreleased Ruby installable. #150 [Reported by MSP-Greg]

1.0.5 / 2018-08-31¶ ↑

• Enhancements:

• Improve JRuby class pass detection. #147 [Patch by Prashant Vithani]

• Update the default source and target versions to Java 6. #148 [Patch by Prashant Vithani]

1.0.4 / 2017-05-27¶ ↑

• Enhancements:

• Migrate to RSpec 3 from RSpec 2.

• Add more tests. #140 [Patch by Lars Kanis]

• Support C++ source files by default. #141 [Patch by Takashi Kokubun]

• Suppress warnings. #142 [Patch by Akira Matsuda]

1.0.3 / 2016-12-02¶ ↑

• Enhancements:

• Support specifying required Ruby versions. #137 [Patch by Lars Kanis]

1.0.2 / 2016-11-13¶ ↑

• Bugfixes:

• Fix Ruby version detection example code in README. #135 [Patch by Nicolas Noble]

• Fix version detection. #136 [Patch by Lars Kanis]

1.0.1 / 2016-06-21¶ ↑

• Bugfixes:

• Add missing dependency.

1.0.0 / 2016-06-21¶ ↑

• Enhancements:

• Really support extension in sub directory.

0.9.9 / 2016-05-10¶ ↑

• Bugfixes:

• Support Symbol as extension name again. #134 [Patch by Takashi Kokubun]

0.9.8 / 2016-04-29¶ ↑

• Enhancements:

• Support extension in sub directory. #128, #129 [Patch by Kenta Murata]

0.9.7 / 2016-03-16¶ ↑

• Bugfixes:

• May fix “make” detection on Windows. #123 [Reported by Aaron Stone]

0.9.6 / 2016-03-04¶ ↑

• Enhancements:

• Add more descriptions into README. Closes #105 [Patch by Aaron Stone]

• Remove needless executable bits. Closes #107 [Patch by Thibault Jouan]

• Update .gitignore. Closes #108 [Patch by Thibault Jouan]

• Improve “make” detection on some platforms such as FreeBSD. Closes #109 [Patch by Thibault Jouan]

• Enable cucumber steps for POSIX on *BSD. Closes #110 [Patch by Thibault Jouan]

• Stop to build bundled extensions.

• Add description about CLI option into README. Closes #115 [Patch by Richard Michael]

• Update description about using rake-compiler on virtual machine in README. Closes #116, #117 [Patch by Lars Kanis]

• Update fake mechanism to be compatible with Bundler. Closes #121 [Patch by Lars Kanis]

• Bugfixes:

• Fix typos in README. Closes #102, #103 [Patch by Robert Fletcher]

0.9.5 / 2015-01-03¶ ↑

• Enhancements:

• Support adding bundled files in cross_compiling block. Closes #100 [Patch by Aaron Stone]

0.9.4 / 2014-12-28¶ ↑

• Notes:

• Change maintainer to Kouhei Sutou from Luis Lavena. Thanks Luis Lavena for your great works!

• Change repository to github.com/rake-compiler/rake-compiler from github.com/luislavena/rake-compiler .

• Bugfixes:

• Loose RubyGems dependency a little bit to ease old Debian/Ubuntu. Closes #93

0.9.3 / 2014-08-03¶ ↑

• Bugfixes:

• Fix specs to run (and pass) on Ruby 2.1 and beyond. Pull #94 [hggh]

0.9.2 / 2013-11-14¶ ↑

• Bugfixes:

• Pre-load resolver to avoid Bundler blow up during cross-compilation Pull #83 [larskanis]

0.9.1 / 2013-08-03¶ ↑

• Bugfixes:

• Restore compatibility with RubyGems platforms for cross-compilation (i386-mingw32 and x86-mingw32 are the same and supported)

0.9.0 / 2013-08-03¶ ↑

• Enhancements:

• Add support for cross-builds and multiple platforms (x86/x64). Pull #74 [larskanis]

  $ rake-compiler cross-ruby VERSION=1.8.7-p371
  $ rake-compiler cross-ruby VERSION=1.9.3-p392
  $ rake-compiler cross-ruby VERSION=2.0.0-p0
  $ rake-compiler cross-ruby VERSION=2.0.0-p0 HOST=x86_64-w64-mingw32
  $ rake cross compile RUBY_CC_VERSION=1.8.7:1.9.3:2.0.0
  
  # Rakefile
  ext.cross_platform = %w[i386-mingw32 x64-mingw32]

• Support for cross-platform specific options. Pull #74 [larskanis]

  # Rakefile
  ext.cross_config_options << "--with-common-option"
  ext.cross_config_options << {"x64-mingw32" => "--enable-64bits"}
  

• Bugfixes:

• Correct fat-gems support caused by RubyGems issues. Pull #76 [knu]

• Deprecations:

• Requires minimum Ruby 1.8.7 and RubyGems 1.8.25

• Usage of 'i386-mswin32' needs to be changed to 'i386-mswin32-60'

0.9.0.pre.1 / 2013-05-05¶ ↑

See 0.9.0 changes.

0.8.3 / 2013-02-16¶ ↑

• Bugfixes:

• Support FreeBSD ‘mingw32-gcc’ cross compiler. Closes #72 [knu]

0.8.2 / 2013-01-11¶ ↑

• Bugfixes:

• Unset CC, LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS prior cross-compiling. Closes #55

0.8.1 / 2012-04-15¶ ↑

• Bugfixes:

• Raise error when either make or gmake could be found. Closes #53, #54

0.8.0 / 2012-01-08¶ ↑

• Enhancements:

• Invocation from command line now support extra options similar to RubyGems. Closes #4 from Pull #47 [jonforums]

  $ rake compile -- --with-opt-dir=/opt/local

• Bugfixes:

• Only emit cross-compilation warnings for C when cross is invoked. Closes #16 from Pull #48 [mvz]

• Only emit warnings when invoking cross-compilation tasks for JRuby. Pull #45 [jfirebaugh]

• Use x86 MinGW cross-compiler. Pull #49 [larskanis]

0.7.9 / 2011-06-08¶ ↑

• Enhancements:

• Consistently use RubyGems features available since version 1.3.2 and avoid deprecation warnings with Rake > 0.8.7.

• Bugfixes:

• Use correct platform in fake.rb. Pull #39 [kou]

• Workaround Gem::Specification and Gem::PackageTask limitations. Closes #43

0.7.8 / 2011-04-26¶ ↑

• Enhancements:

• Bump default cross-ruby version to 1.8.7-p334.

• ExtensionTask now support config_includes to load additional directories. [jfinkhaeuser]

  Rake::ExtensionTask.new("myext", GEM_SPEC) do |ext|
    ext.config_includes << File.expand_path("my", "custom", "dir")
  end
  

• Bugfixes:

• Warn if compiled files exists in extension's source directory. Closes #35

• Workaround issue with WINE using proper build option. Closes #37

• Use FileUtils#install instead of cp. Closes #33 [Eric Wong]

• Update README instructions for OSX. Closes #29 [tmm1]

0.7.7 / 2011-04-04¶ ↑

• Bugfixes:

• Use Winsock2 as default to match Ruby 1.9.2 library linking.

0.7.6 / 2011-02-04¶ ↑

• Bugfixes:

• Prefer Psych over Syck for YAML parsing on Ruby 1.9.2. [tenderlove]

0.7.5 / 2010-11-25¶ ↑

• Enhancements:

• Promoted stable version for cross-compilation to 1.8.6-p398. Closes #19

• Bugfixes:

• Generate a fake.rb compatible with Ruby 1.9.2. Closes #25

• fake.rb will not try to mimic Ruby's own fake to the letter. Closes #28

• Expand symlinks for tmp_dir. Closes #24

• Silence make output during rake-compiler invocation.

• Usage of Gem.ruby instead of RbConfig ruby_install_name This solve issues with ruby vs. ruby.exe and jruby.exe

• Experimental:

• Allow setting of HOST during cross-compilation. This enable usage of mingw-w64 compiler and not the first one found in the PATH.

  rake-compiler cross-ruby VERSION=1.9.2-p0 HOST=i686-w64-mingw32
  rake-compiler cross-ruby HOST=i386-mingw32 (OSX mingw32 port)
  rake-compiler cross-ruby HOST=i586-pc-mingw32 (Debian/Ubuntu mingw32)

0.7.1 / 2010-08-07¶ ↑

• Bugfixes:

• Update gem files to make “gem install -t” works. Closes #14

• Update mocks to work under 1.8.7. Closes #15 [luisparravicini]

• Do not allow cross-ruby be executed under Windows. Closes #22

• Experimental:

• Allow JRuby to compile C extensions [timfel]. It is now possible compile C extensions using latest JRuby. Offered in experimental mode since JRuby cext hasn't been officially released.

0.7.0 / 2009-12-08¶ ↑

• Enhancements

• Allow generation of JRuby extensions. Thanks to Alex Coles (myabc) for the contribution. This will allow, with proper JDK tools, cross compilation of JRuby gems from MRI.

  Rake::JavaExtensionTask.new('my_java_extension', GEM_SPEC) do |ext|
      # most of ExtensionTask options can be used
      # plus, java_compiling:
      ext.java_compiling do |gem_spec|
        gem_spec.post_install_message = "This is a native JRuby gem!"
      end
    end
  

  Please note that cross-compiling JRuby gems requires either JRUBY_HOME or JRUBY_PARENT_CLASSPATH environment variables being properly set.

• Allow alteration of the Gem Specification when cross compiling. Closes #3 This is useful to indicate a custom requirement message, like DLLs installation or similar.

  Rake::ExtensionTask.new('my_extension', GEM_SPEC) do |ext|
    ext.cross_compile = true
    # ...
    ext.cross_compiling do |gem_spec|
      gem_spec.post_install_message = "You've installed a binary version of this gem"
    end
  end
  

• Bugfixes

• Detect GNU make independently of distribution based naming. Thanks to flori for patches.

• Usage of dup to duplicate gemspec instead of YAML dumping.

• No longer support Ruby older than 1.8.6

• No longer support RubyGems older than 1.3.5

• Force definition of binary directory and executables. Closes #11

• Workaround path with spaces issues using relative paths. Closes #6

• Removed gemspec, GitHub gems no more

• Known issues

• Usage of rake-compiler under projects with Jeweler requires some tweaks Please read issue 73) for Jeweler: github.com/technicalpickles/jeweler/issues/73

  For a workaround, look here: gist.github.com/251663

0.6.0 / 2009-07-25¶ ↑

• Enhancements

• Implemented 'fat-binaries' generation for cross compiling (for now). Thanks to Aaron Patterson for the suggestion and original idea.

  rake cross native gem RUBY_CC_VERSION=1.8.6:1.9.1

  Will package extensions for 1.8 and 1.9 versions of Ruby.

• Can now cross compile extensions for 1.9 using 1.8.x as base. Be warned: works from 1.8 to 1.9, but not if your default ruby is 1.9

  rake cross compile RUBY_CC_VERSION=1.9.1

• Allow simultaneous versions of Ruby to compile extensions. This change allow 1.8.x compiles co-exist with 1.9.x ones and don't override each other.

  Please perform rake clobber prior compiling again.

• Allow optional source file URL for cross-compile tasks. (Thanks to deepj for the patches)

  rake-compiler cross-ruby VERSION=1.9.1-p0 SOURCE=http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.1-p0.tar.bz2

• Bugfixes

• Removed strict versioning for gems since it clash with fat binaries. From now on, if your gem only targets a specific version of Ruby, please indicate it in the Gem::Specification (required_ruby_version)

0.5.0 / 2009-04-25¶ ↑

• Enhancements

• Allow generation of multiple gems for Windows (EXPERIMENTAL) This allows build gems for both VC6 and MinGW builts of Ruby (Thanks to Jonathan Stott for the suggestion)

  Rake::ExtensionTask.new('my_extension', GEM_SPEC) do |ext|
    ext.cross_compile = true
    ext.cross_platform = ['i386-mswin32', 'i386-mingw32']
  end
  

0.4.1 / 2009-04-09¶ ↑

• Enhancements

• Target specific versions of Ruby when generating binaries. This avoids installing a 1.8.x binary gem in 1.9.x and viceversa. (Thanks to Aaron Patterson for the patches)

• Bugfixes

• No longer raises error if rake-compiler configuration is missing. Not all users of a project would have it installed. (Thanks to Aaron Patterson for the patch)

0.4.0 / 2009-04-03¶ ↑

• Enhancements

• Bended the convention for extension folder. Defining ext_dir for custom extension location.

  Rake::ExtensionTask.new('my_extension') do |ext|
    ext.ext_dir = 'custom/location'         # look into custom/location
  end                                       # instead of ext/my_extension
  

• Better detection of mingw target across Linux/OSX. Exposed it as Rake::ExtensionCompiler

• Display list of available tasks when calling rake-compiler script

• Track Ruby full versioning (x.y.z). This will help the compilation of extensions targetting 1.8.6/7 and 1.9.1

• Bugfixes

• Better output of Rake development tasks (Thanks to Luis Parravicini).

• Proper usage of Gem::Platform for native gems (Thanks to Dirkjan Bussink).

• Don't use autoload for YAML (present problems with Ruby 1.9.1).

0.3.1 / 2009-01-09¶ ↑

• Enhancements

• Download cross-ruby source code using HTTP instead of FTP.

• Disabled Tcl/Tk extension building on cross-ruby (helps with 1.9).

• Bugfixes

• Workaround bug introduced by lack of Gem::Specification cloning. Fixes DM LH #757.

• Use proper binary extension on OSX (reported by Dirkjan Bussink).

• Ensure lib/binary task is defined prior clear of requisites.

0.3.0 / 2008-12-07¶ ↑

• New features

• Let you specify the Ruby version used for cross compilation instead of default one.

  rake cross compile RUBY_CC_VERSION=1.8
  

• Enhancements

• Properly update rake-compiler configuration when new version is installed.

• Automated release process to RubyForge, yay!

• Bugfixes

• Corrected documentation to reflect the available options

0.2.1 / 2008-11-30¶ ↑

• New features

• Allow cross compilation (cross compile) using mingw32 on Linux or OSX.

• Allow packaging of gems for Windows on Linux or OSX.

• Enhancements

• Made generation of extensions safe and target folders per-platform

• Bugfixes

• Ensure binaries for the specific platform are copied before packaging.