From: stu <yakumo9275@...>
Date: 2006-07-18T01:10:15+09:00
Subject: Re: additional requirements for a Ruby env


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).
>

the problem is that the ruby setup.rb method assumes ruby is running on
the system that built it, which if you DL'd the windows one click
installer, is 100%
false!

ruby doesnt look for just any old compiler, it looks for the one that
created it.
it is not an easy simple fix.

-stu