Use homebrew-portable-ruby

[jlnr]

Building our own Ruby (libruby*.dylib) just for Gosu is hopeless. I don't have the bandwidth to fix all the issues that pop up. Smarter people have already solved this:

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-portable-ruby/releases

It should be possible to replace all the RVM trickery with just downloading and lipo'ing their Ruby versions.

[taylormcdowell]

@jlnr , I have been using your resources in building my Gosu apps via this wrapper. It's fantastic and I'm able to build my own debugging system (outputs error log files if any error occurs upon app closing) while running as the wrapper instead of using Terminal to run it. This is all my big thanks to you for your wonderful hard work!

Now to my question - while I am using a very outdated Gosu version (part of your last gosu wrapper package back in 2019), how do I use this homebrew in creating a wrapper with the latest version of Gosu? What did you mean by the "RVM trickery" and "downloading lipo'ing their Ruby versions"? I would love to know how, so I can stay up-to-date with Gosu.

[jlnr]

I don't know. It was more of a theoretical idea to use Homebrew's prebuilt Ruby instead of compiling my own one. I don't know if anyone has tried it yet. It wouldn't solve the other issues with this repository, namely that Ruby.app is not really compatible with the macOS security model: It requires increasingly annoying context menus to open gosu games, and it's a bad deal for end users too because these games then have access to their whole home folder.

Even though macOS is still my main OS, I am afraid that it'd make more sense to spend time on getting Gosu to work in the browser as a portable sandbox; and for more serious games, to better support Windows builds on Steam which can then be played on Linux using Proton, and to ignore macOS until Proton becomes a thing there as well. After all, Apple could break Gosu at any time by removing their deprecated OpenGL implementation in an update.

Sorry for the all bad news, with such a long delay too. =(