From: Tim Hunter <rmagick@...>
Date: 2006-05-24T22:13:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Proposing: A new Ruby Windows installer

Mauricio Fernandez wrote:
> On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 09:39:43PM +0900, Tim Hunter wrote:
>> What compiler do you need to build binary extensions that are compatible 
>> with the one-click installer?
> 
> IIRC MSVC 6 or MinGW.

Thanks, Mauricio.

We tried building RMagick with MinGW and ran into problems (with Rails 
apps) that smell very much like they were caused by an incompatibility 
between MinGW and the compiler used for the 1.8.4 ruby-mswin binary. 
Through 1.8.2, RMagick built with MinGW has always worked just fine.

So I'm wondering what to do. If I'm right and MinGW-compiled binaries 
are incompatible with ruby-mswin 1.8.4, and MSVC6 is no longer available 
for free, what compiler should we use to create ruby-mswin-compatible 
compiled extensions?

-- 
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.