From: Alexandru Popescu <the.mindstorm.mailinglist@...>
Date: 2006-08-31T08:15:19+09:00
Subject: Re: One-Click Ruby Installer for Windows 1.8.5-21 released

On 8/31/06, mortench <mortench@gmail.com> wrote:
> Austin Ziegler skrev:
> > Do you want to have a 64-bit Ruby on Windows eventually?
> > If the answer is yes, MinGW is completely stalled on this matter. The
> > only answer there is VC8.
>
> The world is clearly moving rapidly towards 64 bit architectures. AMD
> x86 chips has been 64 bits for years now, and even Intel got their acts
> together with Core Duo 2 recently. Also the upcomming Microsoft Vista
> will only have complete functionality on 64 bit and various other
> software like Exchange will NOT work at all on 32bit machines.
>
> Ruby should go for 64bit as well as soon as possible. I would prefer
> Ruby on Windows to be compiled with VC8 for interoperability with .NET
> and other Windows C++ libraries (sort of the whole point of a Windows
> version) -, but if MinGW does not support 64 bit than I can't see any
> other choice than VC8 anyway.
>
> / Morten
>

I agree with this, but I wonder if there is somebody that has
succesfully compiler Ruby with VC8. I rember somebody has started this
process (Austin is it you?), but never heard of the final result.

./alex
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