From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2006-07-18T01:44:13+09:00
Subject: Re: additional requirements for a Ruby env

Mauricio Fernandez wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 12:54:22AM +0900, Alex Young wrote:
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> You can also use extensions compiled using mingw with mswin32 (VC6) binaries,
> like the one upon which the One Click Installer distro is built. All you need
> is an appropriate rbconfig.rb. 
I know that's the theory, but aren't there a few libs that fail under 
those conditions?  RMagick and Ferret spring instantly to mind, but I 
may be misunderstanding something here...

-- 
Alex