From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2004-10-26T02:50:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Compiling Extensions on Windows

Joey Gibson wrote:
> Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> 
>> Jim Weirich wrote:
>>
>>> I need to compile some ruby extensions on a windows box.  Although I've
>>> done this on Linux hundreds of times, I'm not setup for developement on
>>> the windows box nor am I very familiar with windows development.  
>>> What do
>>> I need on windows to build ruby C extensions that are compatible with 
>>> the
>>> one click installer?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> You can install MSVC:
>>
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/
> 
> 
> 
> Have you actually gotten that to work? I tried building some stuff with 
> that compiler when it came out, but because they got rid of the 'lib' 
> program, the build failed. Maybe they've added it back in or changed 
> things, but I had to drop back to MSVC6 to get ruby stuff to compile.

It worked for the few extensions I built. Can't remember now which 
ones... I'll check next time I boot into windows.

Which ones did you try?