From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-09-12T06:50:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Using RubyInline for Optimization

On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Ryan Davis wrote:

>
> On Sep 11, 2006, at 10:22 AM, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
>
>> 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 
>> ;-)
>
> That would be ideal, but seems unlikely. Is there any progress on this front?

maybe we should just make one?  if it were me, i'd probably just compile
everything, zip it, and let people unpack it.  a bat script to setup the
environment, associactions, etc.  might be nice, but i'm a fan of keeping
stuff out of system space and letting people just point their env at it...

what do you think?  basically i'm thinking

   msys-ruby-1.0.0.tgz

   (unpack)

   cd c:\msys-ruby-1.0.0\

   setup.bat  # sets up env vars, file assoc, etc.


setup.bat, for that matter, need only configure %PATH and then spawn setup.rb.

thoughts?

-a
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