From: Alex Young Date: 2006-07-18T00:54:22+09:00 Subject: Re: additional requirements for a Ruby env Alexandru Popescu wrote: > Guys any hints for this? Sorry for pushing it to the top, but I am > still wondering what shall I use. > > once again thanks for any hints and ideas, Your options are as follows: - Rely on the kindness of others to provide Win32 builds of C extensions that you need. - Obtain MS VC6 (somehow) and compile them yourself. - Obtain MinGW GCC and friends and compile them yourself. In the first and second case, you can use the One-Click Installer Ruby. In the third case, you'll either need to compile Ruby yourself, or use the MinGW build from ruby-lang.org. In any of the three cases, you will be relying on the C extension in question having been tested on Windows previously, unless you are willing to be the test case yourself. I don't know about Borland's offerings here - they may or may not be appropriate. My money's on MinGW for the medium-long term. I believe (Curt? You there?) that the OCI will be converted to a MinGW build in future. -- Alex > > ./alex > -- > .w( the_mindstorm )p. > > > On 7/16/06, Alexandru Popescu wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> I know there are Ruby libs outthere that are coming with C extensions. >> To get them working you usually do a ruby setup.rb on your >> environment. But, having C extensions, they will require that your ENV >> has a few more things available (I assume a make, C/C++ compiler at >> least). >> >> My environment is a Win XP machine, but I am not doing anything >> related to C/C++ (and I haven't done anything for quite a long >> time.... so my knowledge became quite rusty about). I would like to >> hear from you, more experienced rubiest, what would be the lightest >> env that would allow me to use such Ruby libs (I would like to hear >> more options with some pros/cons, so that I can decide which one would >> better fit). >> >> Many thanks in advance, >> >> ./alex >> -- >> .w( the_mindstorm )p. >> >