From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-05-24T22:48:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Proposing: A new Ruby Windows installer

On Wed, 24 May 2006, Curt Hibbs wrote:

> There is a slight problem here though. I don't have time to go into the
> detais (I've got to get out of the house in 15 minutes), but right now to
> build the one-click ruby installer/distro you need VC++ 6.0. The free
> version is VC++ 8 and is not compatible.
>
> Curt

hi curt-

i've never understood why one would use the mingw?  my biggest issue with
windows ruby is that i can't do this

   ruby extconf.rb && make && make install

which renders ruby useless for my purposes - doing just about any science will
require one to compile ruby extensions and third-party libs...

so, when i compiled the gsl for win i had to do this

   - install msys
   - compile a ruby using msys
   - compile gsl
   - compile ruby-gsl using msys-ruby
   - manually copy *.so, *rb, etc into c:\ruby\lib\...

not to mention quite a few small tweaks i made to ruby-gsl... anyhow.  here is
my question:

why not compile ruby with msys so that windows users can install extensions
like the rest of the ruby world?  it always seems strange to me that ruby's
built-in extension creation does not work on windows...

anyhow, not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth, but why not msys?


cheers.

-a
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