Yeah, for that I don't have a solution. It seems like there ought to be a way to have FFI libraries bring along the lib they need and compile it right there, bu

Yeah, for that I don't have a solution. It seems like there ought to be a way to have FFI libraries bring along the lib they need and compile it right there, but portable C libs are still a bitch to manage across platforms no matter what you do. I hate to say it, but JVM libraries have a huge advantage here; most JRuby-specific libs that ship a jar file just work on any platform with no recompile and no portability issues. Hard to beat that :(