From: Mauricio Fernandez <mfp@...>
Date: 2006-10-19T04:00:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Cross Compiling Ruby Extension

On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 10:52:55PM +0900, Austin Ziegler wrote:
> On 10/18/06, Brian Takita <brian.takita@gmail.com> wrote:
> >I'm attempting to cross compile a ruby extension for Windows from a Linux
> >box.
> >Im running Ubuntu 6.06, Ruby 1.8.5, and mingw gcc 3.4.4.
> 
> I don't recommend doing this if you want your extension to be
> compatible with the current Windows Ruby release.

Isn't mingw supposed to be compatible with the MSVC (which the 
One Click Installer uses now instead of some newer VC++) builds?

Ara mentioned some incompatibility on ruby-core (a problem with isascii IIRC)
but it had been solved in CVS for a while.

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