From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2005-06-06T02:34:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Package, a future replacement for setup.rb and mkmf.rb

From: "Christian Neukirchen" <chneukirchen@gmail.com>
>
> I don't think making the installer work on windows "perfectly" would
> be a hard job.  For building extensions, things look a bit
> different...  I'd certainly need a win32 expert for that.
> 
> How well does extconf.rb work on win32?

Pretty well, actually.

Occasionally some minor glitches, like I was trying to build
rbtree-0.1.3 on win32 the other day, and it was mysteriously
failing during extconf...  Turned out one line in rbtree's
extconf.rb was the problem:

$CFLAGS << ' -std=c89 -pedantic -Wall -Wno-long-long'

...Unconditionally adding gnu-specific flags to $CFLAGS
regardless of platform.  After commenting out that line,
rbtree built just fine on windows.


Regards,

Bill