From: daz <dooby@...10.karoo.co.uk>
Date: 2004-05-14T10:08:51+09:00
Subject: Re: popen3 on windows


Joel VanderWerf wrote:
>
> I'm puzzlied, why does VC generate a .so instead of a .dll? Oh well,
> ruby seems to load it with no problem.
>

It'll be the generated Makefile that gives .so as file extension.

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Thu Jan 29 23:11:57 2004  WATANABE Hirofumi  <eban@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.org>

* configure.in (DLEXT2): removed.  Ruby does not treat
  ".dll" as a extention library anymore.

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Perhaps the need for speed ?  Protesting is futile.


daz