From: Benoit Cerrina <benoit.cerrina@...>
Date: 2001-10-03T16:33:20+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:21988] Re: Let's work on Windows support

>
> > I didn't think of my module would work on either cygwin or mingw, but
> > there should be no problem... Maybe except some macros wich are defined
> > in mswin only :(
mingw comes with MS headers
>
> We should be able to use MinGW or VC++ with each other, if we get the
compile
> and linker switches right. Assuming the right calling convention and
linker
> naming scheme (which has to work, as noted, for MinGW to work with extant
> Win32 libraries), this should be easy.
>
Definitely and this should be specified in a makefile or better in the ruby
make makefile system
(mkmf module I believe).
Benoit