From: Lionel Thiry <lthiryidontwantspam@...>
Date: 2005-06-06T23:50:25+09:00
Subject: Re: help, I can't compile an extension on windows

ES a �crit :
> Le 5/6/2005, "Lionel Thiry" <lthiryidontwantspam@skynetnospam.be> a
> �crit:
> 
>>Daniel Berger a �crit :
>>
>>>Lionel Thiry wrote:
>>>
>>>>I launch it, I then launch make (the mingw version of make, I don't have
>>>>M$ make. Someone know where I can freely get it?)
>>>
>>>
>>>http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?WindowsCompiler
>>>
>>>If you follow these instructions, you should have nmake.
>>>
>>
>>I have it now, and it still don't work. There is something about a
>>missing windows.h that I can't find anywhere. I can't find excepted in
>>my MinGw include dir, but if I add it to the INCLUDE var, I get another
>>bunch of errors (probably some kind of incompatibilities between cl
>>compiler and mingw headers)
> 
> 
> You should not be mixing cl and MinGW...

I haven't. This what I tried to explained: if I mix them, I get errors,
so I don't.

> use whichever tool your
> version of Ruby was compiled with. You can get the MS tools as a
> free (your soul does not count) download if you need them.

I already have all the MS tools I should use: nmake, cl, link, and the
headers and libs, and so on. But I got the error of windows.h missing,
and there are no windows.h anywhere in MS include stuff.


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