From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-04-12T20:19:49+09:00
Subject: Re: extensions on Windows


"Peter Wood" <peter@njini.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:f06210200be8134c79516@[192.168.252.154]...
> Steve,
>
> I ran into this one as well while using the free compilation tools
> from Microsoft. I believe you also have to install the .Net SDK to
> get the MSVCRT.lib. Hope that helps.

I'm not 100% sure but I think I remember that this lib is part of the OS.
Did you check whether you have that file or MSVCRT.DLL on your machine?

Kind regards

    robert

>
> Peter
>
> >I could use some help from someone who knows Windows.
> >
> >We use a commercial system engineering tool here at work. It has a C
API
> >that I've wrapped with SWIG and successfully made into an extension on
> >Linux. The vendor's Linux library is static, but building it into the
> >Ruby interpreter is straightforward. It works well.
> >
> >Some of my colleagues would like to use this extension on Windows. I
run
> >Cygwin with Ruby on my Windows machine, but the vendor's DLL was built
> >with a Microsoft compiler. I played around for a couple of hours with
> >trying to get gcc to link against a MS DLL and got nowhere, so I
> >installed the One-Click Ruby for Windows and downloaded MS Visual C++
> >Toolkit 2003. After another couple of hours, it seemed I needed to also
> >install something called the Platform SDK. OK, did that, but now it
> >fails to find MSVCRT.lib when linking.
> >
> >What am I missing? Is there some simple way to set up an environment
> >that can compile a single .c file, link against a DLL, and make a
shared
> >object for Ruby?
> >
> >Any help appreciated.
> >
> >Steve
>
>
>