From: Aleksei Guzev <aleksei.guzev@...>
Date: 2001-10-09T12:13:12+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:22277] Re: The Windows question still remains...


# 
# > Can anybody tell why my module built for mswin Ruby does 
# not work with 
# > cygwin installation? Or it should work? The module provides 
# access to 
# > some Windows API fnctions.
# AFAIR your module is C only. Then it should work everywhere, 
# even when distributed as a binary. 
# If it was C++ you have to use VC++' support routines, its
# (undocumented) object layout, its (undocumented) name 
# mangling, it's object initialization scheme ... All this 
# makes binaries incompatible between C++ compilers.
# 
# The problem is not the access to Windows functions but the 
# access to third party support functions. Mingw/VC++ do only 
# access functions provided by Windows. Cygwin uses a support 
# library, which helps porting Unix source code.
# 
# -- 

My module is  plain C. No C++ or extensions. They report it's not
working :( The only thing it uses is Windows API.