From: mathew <meta@...>
Date: 2005-09-07T05:11:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie Mixed Bag

Austin Ziegler wrote:
> There are instructions available on RubyGarden to get a free version
> of the Microsoft compiler. Note that MINGW/MSYS is not compatible with
> the most recent build of the Windows Installer version of Ruby. Many
> things that require compilation *will not* compile properly on Windows
> in any case.

....though they might if you run Cygwin and do your Ruby development in 
Cygwin. With Cygwin you can get all the usual Linux GNU tools on your 
Windows box, including GCC, GNU Make, SQLite and so on, as well as the 
Cygwin version of Ruby.

(Austin hates Cygwin with a passion, so obviously it slipped his mind to 
mention that.)

Of course, developing under Cygwin isn't a good solution if you 
ultimately want your program to be a native Windows application; but if 
you just want to learn or want a Unix-like environment on your Windows 
machine, it's perfectly adequate.


mathew
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