From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2006-09-12T06:46:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Using RubyInline for Optimization

Ryan Davis wrote:
> 
> On Sep 11, 2006, at 10:22 AM, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
...
>> or campaign for an msys based ruby dist which would make this all go 
>> away ;-)
> 
> That would be ideal, but seems unlikely. Is there any progress on this 
> front?

I wonder how hard it would be to adapt the OCI build process (rakefiles 
and other scripts) to generate both mingw and mswin based installers? 
I'm sure it's much more than s/nmake/make/ and so on, but maybe it's 
feasible.

Not to suggest that Curt should take this on, but there seems to be a 
critical mass of interested folks here who would really like to have an 
windows OCI that contains a gnu toolchain and can load gcc-built extensions.

(I'm doing a svn co to see what goes into the OCI, and to find out how 
naive I am....)

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