From: WATANABE Hirofumi <eban@...>
Date: 2001-10-30T13:02:39+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23799] Re: Problem Building Ruby extension (swin) with MinGW under Win2K...

Hi,

"Rich Kilmer" <rich@infoether.com> writes:

:and I get the following in the mkmf.log file (repeated several times):
:
:gcc -bmingw -o conftest -Ic:/infoether/ruby/lib/ruby/1.6/i386-mingw32 -DNT -D__MSVCRT__ -Os  -I/usr/local/mingw/include   -I/usr/local/mingw/include   -L/usr/local/mingw/lib conftest.c -lole32   -lwsock32 -lmsvcrt 
:gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cpp0': No such file or directory
:
:This error usually means that the path to gcc, etc is not set, but it is.
:
:It builds a Makefile, but when I try and make, I get the same error (gcc: installation problem...).
:
:Can anyone help?

Install the bmingw package:
  http://www.ruby-lang.org/~eban/binaries/mingw/bmingw/
Or run this:
ruby -i~ -pe 'sub!(/-bmingw/, "-mno-cygwin")' \
  c:/infoether/ruby/lib/ruby/1.6/i386-mingw32/rbconfig.rb

-- 
eban