From: Sean O'Halpin <sean.ohalpin@...>
Date: 2006-07-20T04:18:58+09:00
Subject: Re: One-Click Installer: MinGW? or VC2005?

On 7/19/06, Lyle Johnson <lyle.johnson@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/18/06, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
>
> > that's odd - i installed and compiled straight away... i'm at an airport now
> > but it actually wrote up what i did - i'll dig it out when i get back.  in any
> > case i assure you it can be done... make sure you've got mingw installed
> > correctly and do someting like
> >
> >    ./configure --prefix=/c/usr/local && make && make install
> >
> > good luck.
>
> *Please* do post how you got this to work when you are back.
>
> The first thing I did was download and install MSYS 1.0.10. This seems
> to have worked fine.
>
> Next, I downloaded the MinGW installer version 5.03 and ran it, and
> asked it to download and install the "Current" release (which
> included, among other things, gcc-3.4.2 I think). When that was done,
> I grabbed the standard ruby-1.8.4.tar.gz, unpacked it, and did
> "./configure", followed by "make". It bombed while compiling the very
> first file, with errors about "redefinition of struct timezone" and
> other types.
>
> I've just uninstalled MinGW, and am going to start over again with the
> "Candidate" release (which is based on gcc-3.4.5). We'll see if that
> goes any better...
>
>
Hi Lyle,

I installed MinGW Current (MinGW-5.0.3) first, then
MSYS-1.0.11-2004.04.30-1, downloaded and unpacked ruby stable snapshot
(ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/stable-snapshot.tar.gz), fired up
MSYS, entered this:

./configure --prefix=c:/ruby-mingw --enable-shared && make && make install

Waited about 5-10 mins.

Back at Windows command prompt:

> cd \ruby-mingw\bin
> ruby -v
ruby 1.8.5 (2006-07-18) [i386-mingw32]

Good luck!

Regards,
Sean