From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-05-25T00:53:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Proposing: A new Ruby Windows installer

On 5/24/06, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
> 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.
> i've never understood why one would use the mingw?  my biggest issue with
> windows ruby is that i can't do this

MinGW uses MSYS. You're using MinGW when you use MSYS, Ara.

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