add basic template for compiling extension and hooking into jsapi_spec test harness.

Rakefile

@@ -1,23 +1,24 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env rake
 require "bundler/gem_tasks"
 
-require "rake/extensiontask"
-
-# desc "remove all generated artifacts except built v8 objects"
 task :clean do
   sh "rm -rf lib/v8/vm.bundle lib/v8/vm.so"
   sh "rm -rf pkg"
 end
 
+require "rake/extensiontask"
 Rake::ExtensionTask.new("vm", eval(File.read("therubyracer.gemspec"))) do |ext|
+  ext.ext_dir = "ext/v8"
   ext.lib_dir = "lib/v8"
   ext.source_pattern = "*.{cc,h}"
 end
 
-
-require "rspec/core/rake_task"
+require 'rspec/core/rake_task'
 RSpec::Core::RakeTask.new(:spec)
+
+task :sanity => [:clean, :compile] do
+  sh %q{ruby -Ilib -e "require 'v8'"}
+end
+
 task :default => :spec
 
-
-

ext/v8/context.cc

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#include "rr.h"
+
+namespace rr {
+void Context::Initialize() {}
+} //namespace rr

ext/v8/extconf.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+require 'mkmf'
+begin
+  require 'libv8'
+rescue LoadError
+  require 'rubygems'
+  require 'libv8'
+end
+
+have_library('objc') if RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /darwin/
+
+#we have to manually prepend the libv8 include path to INCFLAGS
+#since find_header() does not actually work as advertized.
+#see https://github.com/cowboyd/therubyracer/issues/91
+$INCFLAGS.insert 0, "-I#{Libv8.include_path} "
+
+$CPPFLAGS += " -Wall" unless $CPPFLAGS.split.include? "-Wall"
+$CPPFLAGS += " -g" unless $CPPFLAGS.split.include? "-g"
+$CPPFLAGS += " -rdynamic" unless $CPPFLAGS.split.include? "-rdynamic"
+$CPPFLAGS += " -fPIC" unless $CPPFLAGS.split.include? "-rdynamic" or RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /darwin/
+
+$DEFLIBPATH.unshift(Libv8.library_path)
+$LIBS << ' -lv8 -lpthread'
+
+CONFIG['LDSHARED'] = '$(CXX) -shared' unless RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /darwin/
+
+create_makefile('vm')

ext/v8/rr.h

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+#ifndef THE_RUBY_RACER
+#define THE_RUBY_RACER
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <v8.h>
+#include <ruby.h>
+
+#define RR_DEFINE_METHOD(klass, name, impl, argc) rb_define_method(klass, name, (VALUE(*)(...))impl, argc)
+
+namespace rr {
+
+class Object {
+public:
+  Object(VALUE value);
+  inline operator VALUE() {return value;};
+private:
+  VALUE value;
+};
+
+class Class {
+public:
+  Class(const char* name);
+  Class defineSingletonMethod(const char* name, VALUE(*impl)(...), int argc);
+  Class defineMethod(const char* name, VALUE(*impl)(...), int argc);
+};
+
+class Context {
+public:
+  static void Initialize();
+};
+
+}
+
+#endif

ext/v8/vm.cc

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#include "rr.h"
+
+extern "C" {
+  void Init_vm();
+}
+
+using namespace rr;
+
+extern "C" {
+  void Init_vm() {
+    Context::Initialize();
+  }
+}

ext/vm/extconf.rb

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-require 'mkmf'
-
-create_makefile('vm')

lib/v8/context.rb

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 module V8
   class Context
     def initialize
-      @native = CC::Context::New()
+
     end
     def eval(*args)
 

therubyracer.gemspec

@@ -12,10 +12,11 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |gem|
   gem.files         = `git ls-files`.split("\n")
   gem.test_files    = `git ls-files -- {test,spec,features}/*`.split("\n")
   gem.name          = "therubyracer"
-  gem.require_paths = ["lib"]
+  gem.extensions    = ["ext/v8/extconf.rb"]
+  gem.require_paths = ["lib", "ext"]
   gem.version       = V8::VERSION
 
-  gem.add_dependency "libv8", "~> 3.7.0"
+  gem.add_dependency "libv8", "~> 3.8.9"
 
   gem.add_development_dependency "rake"
   gem.add_development_dependency "rake-compiler"