From: Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@...>
Date: 2006-01-16T08:45:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Compile Ruby9i on Windows

On 1/14/06, Bertram Scharpf <lists@bertram-scharpf.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> in my company we use Oracle and Windows :-(.
>
> Now, I would like at least to start for some quick-and-dirty
> solutions to use Ruby. Maybe my boss could be convinced it's
> worth a closer look.
>
> I'm afraid, I don't succeed to compile the
> <http://ruby9i.sourceforge.net/> library at all. I get loads
> of errors the more I try. I easily managed to compile my own
> OCI (Oracle from C) programs with MSVC (by the way: C
> plugins, too).
>
> I would build a project file of my own but as I see the Ruby
> installation includes ".so" files. I don't know what
> restrictions to use to build DLLs that can be renamed to
> that type.
>
> Could anyone please give me a short description of what is
> to do?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Bertram
>
I only tried to make Ruby9i work for a short time, before deciding
that the Ruby-oci8 interface was more recently maintained, and more
popular:
http://www.jiubao.org/ruby-oci8/
I'm using this (on Windows and otherwise) for a number of production
tasks and Rails systems, and it works well.  Conveniently, it also has
a binary download for Windows, so you won't need to compile anything.