From: "Curt (Work) Hibbs" <ml.chibbs@...>
Date: 2007-10-04T06:12:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Will 1.8.6 remain compiled with VC6?

On 10/3/07, Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz> wrote:
> On 01/10/2007, Charlie Savage <cfis@savagexi.com> wrote:
> >
>
> > Note a big downside of VC2003/VC2005 is having to distribute the various
> > required Microsoft CRT dlls - that is a royal PITA.  And that is why
> > MingW/msys/VC++6 are so convenient - they use older versions of the CRT
> > that are on all Windows machines.
> >
>
> What's the problem here? The whole point here is that you do want to
> distribute dlls. Just pack in one or two more. And if the oci is built
> using the new compiler it would have the dlls already so there is no
> problem at all.

The problem is that you can't safely mix a Ruby built with
VC2003/VC2005 with other binaries (gems, OpenSSL, ImageMagick, etc.)
that were built with older compilers.

Curt