From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2007-01-12T02:20:09+09:00
Subject: Re: same compiler needed for C libraries?

On Jan 11, 2007, at 3:19 PM, Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote:

Thank you!

> At Thu, 11 Jan 2007 21:47:47 +0900,
> Xavier Noria wrote in [ruby-talk:233538]:
>> I've often heard that the same compiler should be used to compile
>> Ruby and C extensions. I've also heard the same restriction for Perl,
>> mod_perl, and Apache. Libraries distributed as binaries for Windows
>> have to be compiled with Microsoft the compiler as well, right?
>
> It is not accurate.  They have to be compiled with *same
> version* of Microsoft compiler, or mingw and VC6.

You mean it is even stronger? Same compiler _and_ same version?

> In general, gcc generated code is compatible with system
> compilers.

Great, that's helpful to know. In that case I guess on Solaris I  
could tweak the system-wide mkmf.rb to use gcc and it would work (I  
think the compiler suite is downloadable for free, but in this thread  
I just want to understand what works and what not).

-- fxn