From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-04-09T03:27:34+09:00
Subject: Re: windows gurus i beseech you

On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Dave Lee wrote:

> On 4/8/06, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
>> so i need to compile a bunch of stuff on windows.  some third party stuff and
>> ruby extensions to those third party libs.  everything i do __must__ be
>> compatible with the one-click installer, here's what i'm thinking might be a
>> good approach:
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> has anyone done anything like this?  does it sound resonable?
>
> This is close to how I build the ruby-postgres win32 gem.  I have
> MingW and MSYS installed,  which I used to build, *and install* ruby
> 1.8.4.  simple as:
>
> ./configure --prefix=c:/mingw/ruby
> make
> make install
>
> this keeps the two ruby installs seperate.
>
> and to build the extension:
>
> export PATH="c:/mingw/ruby/bin:$PATH"
> cd to/ruby/extension
> ruby extconf.rb
> make
> gem build *.gemspec
>
> to install the extension (to the one-click installer ruby in c:/ruby), I
> open up a new term, which has c:/ruby/bin in the $PATH, and run `gem install
> ...`.  In your case, you would run `make install`, which should install to
> your one-click installation.  I run all of this from an MSYS term, except
> for the last step of installing to one-click ruby, where I use a windows
> command term.

cool.  i was just doing a

   ./confgure --prefix=c:/mingw/ruby --with-gcc='gcc -mno-cygwin' --enable-shared

now!

seems like i'm on the right track.  the only drawback i can see to this
approach is that any third party lib must also compile against the
'cygwin-less' mingw setup (or a pure mingw setup) and that's quite a hope ;-)

thanks for the info.

fyi.  i just got narray to compile for the one-click using this approach.

-a
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