From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-05-25T23:59:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Proposing: A new Ruby Windows installer

On Thu, 25 May 2006, Guest wrote:

> Guest wrote:
>
>> I've got mingw and msys installed on a windows 2003 box... I've got the
>> path variables set, etc... how did you run ./configure on the ruby
>> source???
>
> I figured it out... I have to use the msys shell... works great.


yup.  and know you can do things like

   tar xvfz narray.tgz

   cd narray

   ruby extconf.rb && make && make install


voila - you've got the narray c extension installed.  easy cheasy.

as far as i'm concerned a ruby that can't be extended this way is crippled...

the other nice thing is that you can stay as current as you like and even
patch your own local ruby.

cheers.

-a
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