From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2006-05-26T02:48:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Proposing: A new Ruby Windows installer

From: <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov>
> On Thu, 25 May 2006, Guest wrote:
> 
>>> fwiw i downloaded msys and compiled ruby-1.8.4 on an xp in about 10
>>> minutes - no errors even.
>>
>> 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???
> 
> start msys # gives you a shell
> 
>  > tar xvfz ruby-1.8.4.tar.gz
>  > cd ruby-1.8.4
>  > ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/ && make && make install
> 
> is all i did

Nice. . . . But what does /usr/local mean on windows?  Did it
really install C:\usr\local?  :)

Also... I've searched the mingw FAQ and Google'd a bit, but
I haven't found an answer as to whether mingw can produce
debugging symbols in a format compatible with the Visual
Studio debugger.

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

./configure && make would be nice... provided the result is
debuggable with symbols in devenv.exe.  Otherwise it would
seem like curing the cripple in exchange for poking his eyes
out.

(I'll admit I've never tried using gdb under Windows. Maybe
it's not as horrifying as I'm imagining.)


Regards,

Bill