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From: "cfis (Charlie Savage) via ruby-core"
Date: 2025-07-02T08:32:26+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:122643] [Ruby Bug#21498] Windows - Ruby Overrides C Library APIs thus breaking them
Issue #21498 has been reported by cfis (Charlie Savage).
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Bug #21498: Windows - Ruby Overrides C Library APIs thus breaking them
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/21498
* Author: cfis (Charlie Savage)
* Status: Open
* ruby -v: *all* on windows (testing with ruby 3.4.3 (2025-04-14 revision d0b7e5b6a0) +PRISM [x64-mswin64_140])
* Backport: 3.2: UNKNOWN, 3.3: UNKNOWN, 3.4: UNKNOWN
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I am trying to wrap a simple C++ library, https://github.com/baderouaich/BitmapPlusPlus, as a Ruby extension.
However when I use the extension to write a bitmap to disk the bitmap is corrupted. This is because the library uses std::ofstream which eventually uses the C API fclose to write the final bytes to the bitmap file and then closes it. The problem is that Ruby overrides `fclose` and replaces it with `rb_w32_fclose`. It then *exports* its custom version from from x64-vcruntime140-ruby340.dll. And the exported version is broken (at least from the standpoint of the C standard library).
Note this has been a long standing issue. The first report I see is from 2013:
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8569
More recently in 2020 (which explains the issue very well):
https://github.com/NREL/OpenStudio/issues/3942#issuecomment-610673401
I understand that Ruby is trying to provide a platform independent API. But the problem is this solution breaks any third party libraries that rely on these C APIs (which of course are very common). And there is no good workaround (see https://github.com/NREL/OpenStudio/issues/3942#issuecomment-611072774).
So would it be possible for Ruby to stop exporting custom versions of basic C APIs? The code that does it is here:
https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/master/win32/mkexports.rb#L41
Ruby of course could still use its custom versions of fclose, read, write etc within ruby.exe and x64-vcruntime140-ruby340.dll. But they should not be exported from x64-vcruntime140-ruby340.dll and thus be off limits to extensions. If a case comes up where an extension really needs access to rb_w32_fclose instead of fclose then an extension developer can use an `#ifdef _WIN32` to do so and work across platforms. That at least puts the developer in control versus now where I don't see any way I can to wrap the bitmap library for usage in Ruby.
>From my experience the biggest problem is the replacing of fclose with rb_w32_fclose. But I propose removing all such mappings, which include:
FD_CLR=rb_w32_fdclr
FD_ISSET=rb_w32_fdisset
Sleep=rb_w32_Sleep
accept=rb_w32_accept
access=rb_w32_uaccess
bind=rb_w32_bind
close=rb_w32_close
connect=rb_w32_connect
dup2=rb_w32_dup2
fclose=rb_w32_fclose
fstat=rb_w32_fstati128
get_osfhandle=rb_w32_get_osfhandle
getcwd=rb_w32_ugetcwd
getenv=rb_w32_ugetenv
gethostbyaddr=rb_w32_gethostbyaddr
gethostbyname=rb_w32_gethostbyname
gethostname=rb_w32_gethostname
getpeername=rb_w32_getpeername
getpid=rb_w32_getpid
getppid=rb_w32_getppid
getprotobyname=rb_w32_getprotobyname
getprotobynumber=rb_w32_getprotobynumber
getservbyname=rb_w32_getservbyname
getservbyport=rb_w32_getservbyport
getsockname=rb_w32_getsockname
getsockopt=rb_w32_getsockopt
inet_ntop=rb_w32_inet_ntop
inet_pton=rb_w32_inet_pton
ioctlsocket=rb_w32_ioctlsocket
isatty=rb_w32_isatty
listen=rb_w32_listen
lseek=rb_w32_lseek
lstat=rb_w32_ulstati128
mkdir=rb_w32_umkdir
mmap=rb_w32_mmap
mprotect=rb_w32_mprotect
munmap=rb_w32_munmap
pipe=rb_w32_pipe
pread=rb_w32_pread
pwrite=rb_w32_pwrite
read=rb_w32_read
recv=rb_w32_recv
recvfrom=rb_w32_recvfrom
rename=rb_w32_urename
rmdir=rb_w32_urmdir
select=rb_w32_select
send=rb_w32_send
sendmsg
sendto=rb_w32_sendto
setsockopt=rb_w32_setsockopt
shutdown=rb_w32_shutdown
socket=rb_w32_socket
stati128=rb_w32_ustati128
strcasecmp=msvcrt.stricmp
strerror=rb_w32_strerror
strncasecmp=msvcrt.strnicmp
times=rb_w32_times
unlink=rb_w32_uunlink
utime=rb_w32_uutime
utimensat=rb_w32_uutimensat
utimes=rb_w32_uutimes
write=rb_w32_write
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