From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-06-01T07:44:35+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] RMagick available on Windows

On Tuesday, June 1, 2004, 4:19:40 AM, Carl wrote:

> Question: I'm not too familiar with the way RubyGems works, but I was
> thinking it would be really nice if it were even able to build binaries
> rather than just download them and install them in the right places.

This is currently supported.  I don't know how well it works on
Windows, though.  (Really, it just depends on the normal Ruby
extconf.rb cycle.)

> Didn't MS recently make their VS7 compiler available for free?  Wouldn't
> it be possible to have RubyGems download the MS compiler (if it were not
> already present) and build the software from source?

That sounds like it's going a bit far :)

Gavin