From: Justin Rudd <justin.rudd@...>
Date: 2004-10-26T04:50:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Compiling Extensions on Windows

I've used both MinGW and Visual Studio.NET 7.1 (or 2003) successfully.
 I tend to use Visual Studio.NET more than MinGW.  Mainly because of
familiarity.  I haven't tried the VC++ Express edition that you can
get for free from MS.  But it should work because it comes with full
headers to CRT, STL, etc.

There are a couple of other suggestions about using the Framework SDK.
 This is the .NET Framework.  And while it does come with cl, link,
and nmake.  It comes with a bare minimum of header files.  And the
header files it does come with are mostly for integrating with .NET. 
There is no STL or CRT.  So it might not work out of the box building
Ruby (or other extensions).

Also there is a link to NMAKE 1.5.  This is the 16 bit NMAKE.  I
wouldn't recommend trying to use it.

-- 
Justin Rudd
http://seagecko.org/thoughts/

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 02:09:45 +0900, Jim Weirich <jim@weirichhouse.org> 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.
> 
> 
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> -- Jim Weirich     jim@weirichhouse.org    http://onestepback.org
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> not tried it." -- Donald Knuth (in a memo to Peter van Emde Boas)
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