From: Ian Macdonald <ian@...>
Date: 2005-07-17T16:08:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby/LDAP on Windows

On Sat 11 Jun 2005 at 00:55:29 +0900, gregarican wrote:

> Here is a message I sent to the maintainer of this particular project.
> I was wondering if there were broader effects of this, as extconf.rb on
> the Win32 platform using the ruby-mswin32 build seems to quirk out on
> other projects as well. Does anyone fall into the same problems as me?

Apologies for the shamefully late response. My wife recently gave birth
to our first child and I am in the midst of winding up my full-time job
and planning an international move.

It's bad news, I'm afraid. I inherited the maintainer position of
Ruby/LDAP from Takaaki Tateishi and, at that time, it appeared that
there was some support for compiling on Windows. Unfortunately, I don't
use Windows at all, so the support for that platform has remained
completely stagnant. I don't even know if it's still possible to build
Ruby/LDAP on that platform.

If anyone is willing to contribute patches for the Windows architecture,
I'd be happy to look at adding them in the future.

Ian
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