From: Benoit Cerrina <benoit.cerrina@...>
Date: 2001-10-04T17:06:54+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:22060] Re: Flogging a live Window


"MikkelFJ" <mikkelj-anti-spam@post1.dknet.dk> wrote in message
news:3bbbaa80$0$244$edfadb0f@dspool01.news.tele.dk...
> Say we support MinGW and gcc with incompatible linker format. This limits
> the number of developers that actually develops extensions for Ruby under
> windows. On the other it may support a large number of extensions
developed
> for Unix. But since the majority of these extensions are not precompiled
for
> the MinGW platform, they will effectively be useless to the majority of
Ruby
> users on Windows.
> Requiring VC support will also limit the number of developers - by I
reckon
> the number will be larger than in the gcc case. And I believe it will help
> promote Ruby better.
>
> But what about Watcom - didn't they go free open source recently? Watcom
> should be able to support standard linker format and platform SDK.
>
I'm still not convince of the incompatibility of linker format, I still see
prior art in the
fact that I have several mingw apps linked with win32 dlls built with MSVC.
I actually have no problem with MSVC being the standard (contrarely to the
way I
sound when I read myself) but its just that if it is the case there needs to
be a group
responsible and dedicated to port and distribute as many extension as
possible
for this format.  I don't believe the developpers will do it.
Benoit