From: Shashank Date <sdate@...>
Date: 2004-12-26T14:36:54+09:00
Subject: Re: The second coming of Santa Claus (Re: [ANN] ruby 1.8.2)

Hi Nobu,

nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:

> At Sun, 26 Dec 2004 02:36:55 +0900,
> Shashank Date wrote in [ruby-talk:124452]:
> 
>>I could get rid of them by adding this script to win32\win32.c:
>>
>>
>>   #if (_MSC_VER >= 1300) && (WINVER < 0x0500)
>>   //VC7 or later, building with pre-VC7 runtime libraries
> 
> 
> It is invalid in general.
> 
> 
>>    extern long _ftol( double ); //defined by VC6 C libs
>>    extern long _ftol2( double dblSource ) { return _ftol( dblSource ); }
>>   #endif
>>
>>
>>Is this the correct way?
> 
> 
> No.  You should fail to install a runtime library or use wrong
> one.

I am not sure I understand what you are suggesting here.

Thanks,
-- shanko