From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2006-01-17T04:24:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Compile Ruby9i on Windows

On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 19:19:19 +0100, Bertram Scharpf  
<lists@bertram-scharpf.de> wrote:

> 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.

Oh dear. Someone dared to forget to code in that bleeding-edge  
experimental new shiny C99 </sarcasm>.

Arguably the thing I hated most about C. *mutters about Borland Turbo C  
colleges*

>
> Now it compiles and works great. Thank you!
>

Hoolay! If that was all that was needed, you're lucky, I can't get even  
"nonsense" like iconv and fastcgi to build out of the box.

David Vallner