From: A Bull in the China Shop of Life <feoh@...>
Date: 2001-08-25T19:10:01+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20359] Re: New Windows InstallShield version of  Ruby

At 10:22 AM 8/25/01 +0900, you wrote:
>Ned Konz <ned@bike-nomad.com> writes:
>
> > On Friday 24 August 2001 05:52 pm, MikkelFJ wrote:
> > > "Andrew Hunt" <andy@toolshed.com> wrote in message
> > > news:200108242151.RAA15357@toolshed.com...
> > >
> > > > *sigh*.  This is one of the 65,536 reasons why I hate Windows -- DLL
> > > > hell.
> > >
> > > While I can contribute with many reasons for disapproving Windows - I 
> think
> > > Cygwin is more to blame than Windows in this scenario.
> >
> > Is Cygwin necessary? Wouldn't it be better to build this without 
> relying on
> > Cygwin? Can't Ruby be compiled using VC++ or MinGW?
>
>At a loss of some functionality. It's a tradeoff.
>
>Dave

I think the cygwin package is a good thing.

My only wish is that it would properly handle integration with my existing 
Cygwin system (which as far as I can tell entails not messing with the 
existing cygwin1.dll or whatever it's called as mine is newer and works 
whereas the Ruby shipped one breaks my Cygwin install utterly (Every exe 
fails with a shared lib-ish thing not found error.  Not pretty.  Like a 
SysV box with /shlib removed :)

I kept backups of my DLLs so all was well, it would just be nice if it were 
handled automagically.

-Chris