From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2004-09-08T17:40:02+09:00
Subject: Re: net/https package for Windows

Hi,

At Wed, 8 Sep 2004 16:40:06 +0900,
Stephan K�mper wrote in [ruby-talk:111829]:
> > Just to know how to do it for the next time, is it enough to copy the .so
> > from the mingw distribution, rename it as .dll and put it in a folder where
> > ruby will find it, and copy the related .rb files?
> 
> I once built something else with MinGW, and as far as I remember 
> renaming the .so file to .dll wasn't neccessary.

It is not only unnecessary, but wrong, don't rename .so as
.dll.  It's an obsolete feature that "require" searches .dll
files, because it often introduced confusions.

-- 
Nobu Nakada