From: Martin Kahlert Date: 2001-10-05T15:41:07+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:22120] Re: Flogging a live Window Hi! On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 12:07:23AM +0900, Lyle Johnson wrote: > I think if we can find a way to make it work for everyone, MinGW would be > the preferred solution. What would be even better is if the DLLs built by > MinGW (i.e. for Ruby extensions) are bit-compatible with Visual C++ DLLs. > This may *already* be the case -- I just haven't studied the issue enough > yet. If that's true, then it should be true that developers can build Ruby > and its extensions using either MinGW or Visual C++, it wouldn't matter. As far as i know, mingw and VC++ DLLs are compatible, i.e. the ones built by one of them can be used from the other. Only static libs are incompatible. This is valid for C only, mingw's C++ will always be incompatible to VC++'s C++ code. Bye Martin. -- The early bird catches the worm. If you want something else for breakfast, get up later.