From: Tree Dweller <x@...>
Date: 2005-12-01T12:22:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby, MySQL on WinXP?


planetthoughtful wrote:
> ... and I (and many other WinXP users, I imagine) don't have a
> copy of Visual C++

Microsoft offers a free C++ compiler .....
http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/

Some instructions for use .....
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/vctoolkitcmd.asp

I don't think the toolkit comes with "nmake" though, so you're out of
luck w.r.t. executing a make file. You can either try to find someone
with nmake.exe to give you (illegally, I guess) or you can
hand-translate a makefile into a series of steps you can call from a
script.