From: dingo <abilyk@...>
Date: 2006-09-01T18:35:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Building Ruby by newbi on Win32

Sorry, saw your note too late - not vary familiar with Google groups
yet.

Thanks anyhow. Yeah, I first did the configure thing, according to the
readme file [the instructions for this have one step missing BTW too]
and then noticed that it produced the needed config.h. Had to poke
around with a few other things here and there to finally have it built.


Also the POSIX build process produces executable that is about 40%
larger then my release build. Go figure:)

D.

David Vallner wrote:
> dingo wrote:
> > Hi, All,
> >
> > My first post here:) I am trying something I have been doing with Lua
> > for years - dragging Ruby source files into an empty VS project and
> > trying to build it. That's all on Win32 XP with MSVS. It doesn't
> > compile! Missing config.h, which I can't find anywhere in ruby source
> > except for VMS, not for Win32, some constants defined in parse.c are
> > used in lex.c and so they don't compile either. Any ideas as I can
> > succeed at what I am doing? I hope I am not trying to do something
> > people have never expected anyone to do:)
>
> config.h is, confusingly enough, a header file with configuration.
> Machine and user-specific configuration. Usually a configuration script,
> confusingly called "configure", generates this header file, and a
> makefile you can use to build the program. This essential is usually
> described in a file someone confusingly named INSTALL or README,
> sneakily hidden in the main directory of the source archive.
>
> Welcome to the POSIX build process. Lua is an exception rather than a
> rule in that you can build it that way due to being a very simple
> language and environment. Whoever makes the one-click installer might eb
> able to describe how to build Ruby using MSVS in more detail, I'd just
> get MinGW and use a POSIX environment where the ./configure && make all
> install incantation works.
> 
> David Vallner