[#8136] Confused exception handling in Continuation Context — "Robert Dober" <robert.dober@...>

Hi all

13 messages 2006/07/06

[#8248] One-Click Installer: MinGW? or VC2005? — "Curt Hibbs" <ml.chibbs@...>

I just posted this to ruby-talk. But I would also like to discuss this

33 messages 2006/07/18
[#8264] Re: One-Click Installer: MinGW? or VC2005? — Charlie Savage <cfis@...> 2006/07/19

From my experience using both tool chains on Windows (for the ruby-prof

[#8266] Re: One-Click Installer: MinGW? or VC2005? — "Curt Hibbs" <ml.chibbs@...> 2006/07/19

Tim, I'm going to top reply since your post was so long. I'm interested in

[#8267] Re: One-Click Installer: MinGW? or VC2005? — Charlie Savage <cfis@...> 2006/07/19

> Tim, I'm going to top reply since your post was so long. I'm interested in

[#8271] my sandboxing extension!! — why the lucky stiff <ruby-core@...>

I have (what feels like) very exciting news. I finally sat down to code up my

17 messages 2006/07/19

[#8430] Re: doc patch: weakref. — "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>

> -----Original Message-----

19 messages 2006/07/28
[#8434] Re: doc patch: weakref. — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2006/07/29

Hi,

[#8436] Re: doc patch: weakref. — Daniel Berger <djberg96@...> 2006/07/29

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

[#8437] Re: doc patch: weakref. — Mauricio Fernandez <mfp@...> 2006/07/29

On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 07:37:24PM +0900, Daniel Berger wrote:

[#8441] Inconsistency in scoping during module_eval? — "Charles O Nutter" <headius@...>

I have the following code:

18 messages 2006/07/30
[#8442] Re: Inconsistency in scoping during module_eval? — nobu@... 2006/07/30

Hi,

[#8443] Re: Inconsistency in scoping during module_eval? — "Charles O Nutter" <headius@...> 2006/07/30

Why does this:

[#8445] Re: Inconsistency in scoping during module_eval? — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2006/07/30

Hi,

[#8454] Re: Inconsistency in scoping during module_eval? — "Charles O Nutter" <headius@...> 2006/07/31

So to clarify...

Re: One-Click Installer: MinGW? or VC2005?

From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-07-21 15:11:31 UTC
List: ruby-core #8335
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Charlie Savage wrote:

> From my experience using both tool chains on Windows (for the ruby-prof
> extension and SWIG-based extensions for GEOS and GDAL).
>
> * You can build Ruby extensions using MingW that run against Ruby built
> with VC++.  I've done this with Ruby 1.8.2/1.8.4, various MingW releases
> and VC++ 2003 and VC++ 2005.  This used to require changing a small bug
> in ruby.h for Ruby 1.8.2, but that bug has been fixed with 1.8.4.  For
> more info see
> http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=1698&aid=2206&group_id=426.

try compiling an extension that uses isacii (narray is one such).  it will
fail at runtime due to imcompatible def in vc++ runtime vs. mingw runtime.


> My recommendation:
>
> * Use VC++ 2005 and get Microsoft to tell us how to properly use unmanaged 
> assemblies so that we can avoid dll hell
>
> * Make sure that mkrf  supports building Ruby extensions
> "out-of-the-box" on Windows using MingW if you have it installed.

this would be nice except that core dumps/link failures will result!  ;-)


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