From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-09-12T02:22:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Using RubyInline for Optimization

On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Eric Hodel wrote:

> Your ruby wasn't compiled with GCC.  If you want inline to use GCC, you need 
> to compile ruby with it.
>
>> Is it it just a matter of hooking it up this right way in RubyInline ?
>
> RubyInline uses whatever C compiler Ruby was built with.  If you don't have
> the same compiler installed inline won't be able to do its thing.  For
> windows using the one-click installer you need to either install the same
> compiler or build ruby from scratch with a GCC.

or campaign for an msys based ruby dist which would make this all go away ;-)

-a
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