From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2007-12-08T00:10:45+09:00
Subject: Re: [Spam] Re: What's the status of compiler/compiling on windows?

 > -----Original Message-----
> From: Nobuyoshi Nakada [mailto:nobu@ruby-lang.org] 
> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 5:13 AM
> To: ruby-core@ruby-lang.org
> Subject: Re: [Spam] Re: What's the status of 
> compiler/compiling on windows?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> At Fri, 7 Dec 2007 20:21:34 +0900,
> Gonzalo Garramu�o wrote in [ruby-core:13914]:
> > Does not mention anything about how gems would be handled 
> if I compile 
> > my own ruby version (I assume those are compiled for the one-click 
> > installer version).
> 
> It's another story.
> 
> > I basically want to distribute a vc7 or vc8 compiled ruby with my 
> > application, but it must work seamlessly with all gems and anything 
> > else.
> 
> Pure ruby gems would work, but I don't know well about binary gems.
> 
> > So, I ask again, what's the status of ruby on windows?  
> Still a mess?
> 
> VC7, VC8 (and perhaps VC9) are supported as well as mingw and VC6.

There are still two problematic libraries in the stdlib - OpenSSL and zlib.

Dan


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