From: Benoit Cerrina <benoit.cerrina@...>
Date: 2001-10-04T16:46:51+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:22056] Re: Flogging a live Window

> That's not really a cygwin problem per se.  It's more of a problem with
> how Windows handles dll's.  Are there ways that that the Ruby for Windows
> installer could handle this (or at least help to mitigate the problem)
> like checking to see if there is another cygwin dll that is already on the
> system?
yes it is, the pb is that there is a cygwin dll


> So are you saying that with mingw you just statically link the ruby.exe to
> mingw (no dll's).

no, with msvcrt...  This is once more the whole point, mingw is not a
porting layer,
it is a set of tools (compiler, linker, binutils, debugger...) and headers
and lib
for the native win32 libs
Benoit