From: Benoit Cerrina <benoit.cerrina@...>
Date: 2001-11-01T18:18:10+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:24068] Re: Ruby's use of cygwin and commercial use!


"Armin Roehrl" <armin@approximity.com> wrote in message
news:0110302306585M.00908@linus...
> Dave, maybe you want to setup a "vote" for that on rubygarden.
good idea
>
> I vote for mingw.
> Armin
>
> >
> > Should the InstallShield version switch to mingw? We'd lose fork and
> > some popen functionality, but we'd also lose the cygwin issues.
>
>
count me for mingw too.  And by the way it would be nice if someone who
knows how to make makefiles could provide one for mingw under windows, when
I asked Watanabe Hirofumi how he compiled it he told me
<quote>

:can you tell me what is the procedure you use to build ruby under mingw32.

I use Linux hosted cross compilers for mingw32, cygwin and
DJGPP target.

</quote>

Benoit