From: Christian Neukirchen Date: 2005-06-06T03:20:32+09:00 Subject: Re: Package, a future replacement for setup.rb and mkmf.rb "Bill Kelly" writes: > From: "Christian Neukirchen" >> >> 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. That is good to know, I guess you used MSVC then? > Regards, > > Bill -- Christian Neukirchen http://chneukirchen.org