From: Timothy Hunter <TimHunter@...>
Date: 2006-09-01T09:15:57+09:00
Subject: Re: One-Click Ruby Installer for Windows 1.8.5-21 released

Austin Ziegler wrote:
> On 8/31/06, Timothy Hunter <TimHunter@nc.rr.com> wrote:
>> Or you could just ask those who've done it. Kaspar Schiess did the Win32
>> versions of RMagick for several years. With practice he got it down to a
>> 2-day task. Brett DiFrischia did the latest version, 1.13.0. That one
>> took 6 weeks. One of the biggest problems (AFAIK) is RMagick's configure
>> script, which has easily over 100 feature tests and of course doesn't
>> work at all on Windows.
>
> Sorry; I was specifically referring to making it work with the freely
> downloadable VC++8.
>
> There are some ... changes there which aren't pleasant to deal with.
>
> -austin
Okay, I see.

Kaspar swears by mingw. Brett used VC++ 2003.