From: Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
Date: 2008-11-16T06:53:56+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:19951] Re: build error with "nightly snapshot"

>> It is curious.  How are topdir extout defined in the Makefile?
>> And since you don't use -mno-cygwin option, I suspect you use
>> mingw which isn't cygwin.  Then it isn't supported now.
> Interesting--I successfully compiled it a few days ago.  I might have
> been using cygwin make if that's the case :)

For any followers:

Appears that if you make, then compile the extensions "by hand" then
run make install it works [?]

ex:
make
then

for dir in Dir.glob 'ext/*' do;
  next unless File.directory? dir
  command = ("cd #{dir.gsub('/', '\\')}; make; cd ..")
  print command
  for command in command.split(';') do;
    system command
   end
end

then
make install

Not sure if it installs it right but it appears to.  I think the OCI
guys might have better tricks up their sleeves than this to get it to
compile with solely mingw, but I haven't looked at it too closely.

I'll probably look into "certifying it" sometime :)

-=R