From: gabriele renzi <rff_rff@...>
Date: 2004-10-28T06:39:01+09:00
Subject: Re: The real Ruby vs. Python.

Justin Rudd ha scritto:

>>you make the point excellently.
>>noone takes on the job, and therefore..
>>yeah. noone takes on the job.
> 
> 
> I've tried a bit.  I've got MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite/Ruby
> compiled for Windows.  The PostgreSQL I haven't released because I
> haven't tested it thoroughly.  Although I'll probably release the
> PostgreSQL one and let the community test it for me :)
> 
> My next project is OpenSSL so that I can use the Ruby SSH project. 
> But that is going to be awhile (I'm in the middle of moving from
> Arizona to Washington).

this may help:
http://www.garbagecollect.jp/ruby/mswin32/en/

the win32 binary contains every ruby extension library that is included 
with the interpreter, and openssl.so /seemed/ to work with openssl from 
openssl.org. Sadly this page is often forgotten :)


 > The thing I've noticed is that the extension library code (the C code)
 > usually has dependencies on things that are not defined in Windows.
 > That is what takes the most time to get around.  But the good news is
 > that it is a small minority of projects that have this problem.

that's why people should use ruby/dl, say 'boo' for c bindings ;)