From: Carl Youngblood <carl@...>
Date: 2004-06-04T01:18:00+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] RMagick available on Windows

Timon Christl wrote:

> I therefore propose that MinGW is used, if a compiler should be 
> included at all. The reasons should be pretty obvious:
> - It's the same compiler that is used on Linux, *BSD and most of the 
> other platforms that Ruby runs on, which will almost eliminate 
> breakages due to compiler differences
> - Quite small, compared to MS VC7 + Platform SDK
> - No unclear legal situation
>
> I really don't see any real alternative to MinGW here.

As I recall there were some problems with the MinGW compiler's build of 
ruby that got fixed after they started using VC++.  Anyone know more 
about this?