From: Alexandru Popescu Date: 2006-08-31T16:03:46+09:00 Subject: Re: One-Click Ruby Installer for Windows 1.8.5-21 released On 8/31/06, Austin Ziegler wrote: > On 8/30/06, Alexandru Popescu wrote: > > 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. > > I had actually started and I did get a running Ruby. But I had to do a > *lot* of extra stuff toward getting a working One-Click Installer > approach. > That's good to know, at least the result was not negative. > I have recently had time to install the appropriate development tools > on my laptop (my old Windows laptop, not a virtual environment in my > Mac, which I will be doing later), so I hope to pick this up again to > help with the effort we were talking with Microsoft about. > Please do so :-], till MS guys will not change their minds. I am a little puzzled by Nobu's comment: [quote] 64-bit ruby is binary incompatible with 32-bit ruby. So it isn't concerned with 32-bit One-Click Installer. [/quote] What does this mean? ./alex -- .w( the_mindstorm )p. > -austin > -- > Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com * http://www.halostatue.ca/ > * austin@halostatue.ca * http://www.halostatue.ca/feed/ > * austin@zieglers.ca > >