From: Alexandru Popescu <the.mindstorm.mailinglist@...>
Date: 2006-08-31T15:36:52+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] One-Click Ruby Installer for Windows 1.8.5-21 released

On 8/31/06, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
> Curt Hibbs wrote:
> > On 8/30/06, Berger, Daniel <Daniel.Berger@qwest.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> What about doing something along the lines of Strawberry Perl, i.e.
> >> bundle a compiler with the distro?
> >>
> >> http://win32.perl.org/wiki/index.php?title=Strawberry_Perl
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Dan
> >
> > That's a very interesting idea. It would really provide a standard
> > environment for building ruby extensions.
> >
> > Curt
> >
> >
> Can gcc 4.1.1 and supporting goodies run on Windows? From what I hear,
> it's the compiler of choice for 64-bit systems.Gentoo 2006.1 just came
> out today and they're on 4.1.1 now. I'm in the process of migrating to
> 4.1.1 even as we speak on my Gentoo boxes.
>

I think there are/there have been attempts to do this (cygwin,
unixtools) but I wouldn't walk this way.

./alex
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