From: Curt Hibbs <ml.chibbs@...>
Date: 2006-06-24T13:34:12+09:00
Subject: Re: windows gurus i beseech you

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On 6/23/06, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Kris Leech wrote:
>
> > unknown wrote:
> >> so i need to compile a bunch of stuff on windows.  some third party
> >> stuff and
> >> ruby extensions to those third party libs.  everything i do __must__ be
> >> compatible with the one-click installer, here's what i'm thinking might
> >> be a
> >> good approach:
> >>
> >>
> >
> > You are using MSYS right?
> >
> > I can get this to compile ruby, but it will not run webrick, it just
> returns
> > to the command prompt.
>
> this is due to threading issues on windows i think.  i've successfully
> compiled ruby, gsl, narray, and rb-gsl using this approach now.  the gsl
> binaries are here now
>
>   http://codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby/
>   http://codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby/rb-gsl-win/
>
> so far i haven't had any issue.
>
> i plan to write this up soon.  i'll test webrick on my platform soon.
>
> regards.
>
> -a
> --
> suffering increases your inner strength.  also, the wishing for suffering
> makes the suffering disappear.
> - h.h. the 14th dali lama



Ara, I've had conflisting reports about the compatibility of mingw and
vc++6. So, I don't really know the answer.

The compiler situation under Windows has become a miniature nightmare. The
current release (one its goes final) will be the last one built with vc++.
Starting with whatever Matz releases this Xmas, I'm going to move to mingw.

Curt

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