From: Austin Ziegler Date: 2006-05-25T00:52:31+09:00 Subject: Re: Proposing: A new Ruby Windows installer On 5/24/06, Tim Hunter wrote: > 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. That's odd, because MinGW is supposed to be compatible with VC++6. It would be useful to see further information. > 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? It's worse: MSVC6 is no longer available at all. Even I, with an MSDN subscription, can no longer get MSVC6, as I understand it. -austin -- Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com * Alternate: austin@halostatue.ca