From: Bertram Scharpf <lists@...>
Date: 2006-01-17T03:19:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Compile Ruby9i on Windows

Hi,

Am Sonntag, 15. Jan 2006, 04:05:56 +0900 schrieb David Vallner:
> On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 17:38:19 +0100, Bertram Scharpf  
> <lists@bertram-scharpf.de> wrote:
> 
> >in my company we use Oracle and Windows :-(.
> >
> >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).
> 
> A .so is a .dll. They're compiled basically the same way, just remember to  
> export the Init_* functions. (Or for qnd jobs, export all functions, you  
> can always optimize later). If you have the time, you might want to give  
> the file "rbconfig.rb" a read, pretty much everything the extension  
> configuration scripts use is there.

Phew, I had to edit all the source files and put the
variable declarations in front of the statements.

Now it compiles and works great. Thank you!

> You might try switching to a cygwin or mingw build of ruby  
> if you plan to use extensions a lot.

That will be the next step ...

Bertram

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