From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2006-06-07T02:12:45+09:00
Subject: Re: One-click installer for Windows and win32-open3

Nuralanur@aol.com wrote:
> Dear all,
>  
> I am trying out Ruby from the one-click installer in Windows.
> I am not really familiar with Windows compiling :
> does the one-click installer comprise Daniel Berger's
> tools for windows, in particular win32-open3 ?
> I can only find a version that needs to be compiled on
> Sourceforge.
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Best regards,
>  
> Axel 
>
>   
Hi Axel,

The win32-open3 package is not part of the one-click installer.  If you 
don't have a compiler, you can instead download the shared object 
directly from the 'files' tab (http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=85) 
and look for a file called open3-0.2.2 
(http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/10842/open3-0.2.2-vc6.so).

Rename that file to "open3.so".  Then copy it to 
c:\ruby\lib\ruby\site_ruby\1.8\i386-msvcrt\win32\.  You'll have to 
create the 'win32' directory there if it doesn't already exist.

Note that we'll be putting out a new release of win32-open3 soon (in the 
next few weeks) that properly sets $? (Process::Status).

And, for anyone who's wondering, we won't be able to convert this 
particular package to pure Ruby because it has to hook into C functions 
from ruby_io.h that aren't exported by the DLL.  Sorry folks.

Regards,

Dan