From: Roy Sutton <roys@...>
Date: 2006-10-25T14:42:18+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: How do I tell when I'm on Cygwin?

Austin Ziegler wrote:
> If Matz, as usual, has a 1.8.6 release for Christmas (Matz?) I will be
> recommending Curt use MinGW to compile Ruby for Windows. The
> discussions that are going on with Microsoft will be continuing with
> the preferred target for the VC8 build being next year's 1.9.1,
> because I suspect it will take nearly that long to build the support
> tools we need to make this work properly.
I recall reading a bit ago of incompatibilities when building C 
extensions with different versions of the C runtime library.  Will 
binary extensions break or was the fear overstated or misunderstood?

Roy