From: Dave Burt <dave@...>
Date: 2005-07-12T06:40:49+09:00
Subject: Re: What happened to Ruby on PocketPC?

"Dido Sevilla" <dido.sevilla@gmail.com> inquired...
>I was in Akihabara a couple of weeks ago, and among other things I
> managed to pick up a little HP iPAQ rz3100 (At about 32,000円, I think
> that was something of a bargain; but don't ask me exactly where I
> found it). One of my first priorities on getting it was finding a way
> to write simple applications for it, and naturally I would have
> preferred doing it with my favorite programming language. Googling for
> Ruby on PocketPC found some mentions on the mailing list, none of
> which were more recent than 2002, and an apparently extinct module on
> the ruby-lang.org CVS. What happened to this project?

This information is from Marcel Toele, who kindly gave it to me, and who I 
trust would not mind my passing it on.

Binary builds of Ruby 1.8.1 for most PPC architectures are available at:
http://uema2.s8.xrea.com/ruby-mswince/

There are apparently problems with strings, perhaps something to do with 
single vs. multi-byte orientation, and watch out for relative paths failing 
due perhaps to the operating system.

Ruby 1.8.2 is apparently seriously broken with respect to windows ce. I'm 
glad to have someone else tell me this, because I spent a bit of time trying 
to build it and failing.

Happy Pocket-rubying,
Dave