From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2006-05-25T02:14:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Proposing: A new Ruby Windows installer

ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
...
> 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\...

What goes wrong with gsl when you use ruby-mswin32 and nmake/vc6?

ruby extconf.rb
nmake
nmake install

This has worked for some extensions, but maybe gsl is peculiar about
being compiled with gcc?

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