From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-10-17T00:32:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with set up after Windows' build

On 10/15/06, Josh Scholar <cafealpha2@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just tried a few more things that weren't sufficient to get this
> working, one of which was copying zlib1.dll from the one-click install
> version of Ruby 1.8.5.
>
> I suppose I can substitute that for building a custom version of zlib
> (I hope).

You can't. They're built with different compilers.

> "...as well as manually building the zlib extension."
>
> How do I manually build the zlib extention to get it recognized?

The same way you would with any normal extension: you go to the
directory where it exists and run "ruby extconf.rb" and then build
from that, IIRC.

> I notice that the 1 click install version of 1.8.5 doesn't seem to have
> any directories or files named after zlib, so I guess that the
> reference must somehow be compiled into ruby.exe proper. Is that right?

Um. I don't have 1.8.5 on my work machine, but if you look in
Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/i386_msvcrt you will see a zlib.so there, I
think.

-austin
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