From: Lou Vanek <vanek@...>
Date: 2005-12-01T21:59:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby, MySQL on WinXP?

- gcc works fine

- you don't need nmake: dsw2mak will convert MS project files to make files
	gawk -f /usr/local/bin/dsw2mak *.dsw

- you don't have to recompile mysql in its entirety, just the client library

- many of the mysql .h defaults have to be tweaked to work on Windows. Specifically, files:
	my_config.h
	my_global.h

- a native mysql driver that links to the libmysqlclient.a file can be found at,
	http://www.tmtm.org/en/mysql/ruby/

- if you have never compiled a C pgm before, I wouldn't recommend trying this


Tree Dweller wrote:
> 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.