From: "Simon Kröger" <SimonKroeger@...>
Date: 2006-07-18T05:56:03+09:00
Subject: Re: additional requirements for a Ruby env

Austin Ziegler wrote:
> On 7/17/06, Alexandru Popescu <the.mindstorm.mailinglist@gmail.com> wrote:
>> By following the thread and considering the fact that my system relies
>> on the one click installer I assume my only option is having MS VC6.
>> Is this conclusion correct? (because I failed to understand the
>> reasons why other compilers are not gonna work :-( ).
> 
> Binary incompatibilities from Microsoft.
> 
> -austin

yes, but as far as i know the problem isn't with the resulting dll's (not
the extension dll, nor the ruby.dll) but only with this little import lib
that makes the ruby dll available in the extension. right so far?

If so, this problem can be solved:

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/190272

we 'just' need to build win32 extensions this way (regardless of compiler
version) and the problem goes away. (yes, this will take time to convince
each and every maintainer of a ruby extension)

But right now this information isn't known very well, i asked before

"please, can we have that in readme.ext ?" but got no answer.

If there is something wrong with this way to compile extensions on win32
i would like to know, if not we should really follow those instructions.

cheers

Simon