From: Toby Dipasquale <codeslinger@...>
Date: 2007-04-18T11:46:56+09:00
Subject: Re: How to build Ruby on MinGW?

Toby Dipasquale wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Does anyone have a howto or instruction list on how to build Ruby 1.8.x
> (preferably .6) under MinGW *with* binary extensions e.g. Zlib and
> OpenSSL?
> 
> I can't find any docs/articles on that and the one from ruby-lang.org is
> somewhat broken (complains of fcntl() not being implemented).
> 
> When I try to build it with a ./configure ; make ; make install, the
> ruby interpreter builds fine, but zlib, openssl, etc. do not build
> binaries for use with it (I have MinGW/MSYS installed already).
> 
> Any ideas? Thanks.

I got a little farther in the build (zlib, but no openssl still) but 
I've since stopped as the MinGW build of Ruby still exhibits the broken 
I/O behavior described here:

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/229801

I will have to use Python or Perl for this. Oh well...

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