From: Benoit Cerrina <benoit.cerrina@...>
Date: 2001-10-04T08:46:23+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:22039] Re: Let's work on Windows support


"Aleksei Guzev" <aleksei.guzev@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
news:000801c14c15$767d1e60$665e0cc3@p32...
> Why not use ANSI C and free Microsoft Platform SDK?
> Every C compiler would "understand" ANSI C.
>
Problem is not compilation but runtime compatibility, you need to be able to
use an extension without
having to recompile it.
Benoit
PS:
By the way I don't think the sdk includes a compiler and a linker just the
headers and some doc but I'm
not sure