From: billtj@... (Bill Tj)
Date: 2001-11-22T14:15:15+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26108] Re: Compiling Ruby Extensions in Windows

Hi,

Thanks for your pointers.  I just upgraded my Windows Ruby to 1.6.5
and I also just installed Cygwin 1.3.5.  It looks pretty cool, but...
it turns out the Cygwin installation does not include gcc (and make). 
It is pretty strange, because a lot of explanations on the Cygwin web
page mentions gcc but they don't tell how to obtain and install gcc.

So my next question is: how do I get gcc?  Should I try to get it from
the GNU site, or should I try to install mingw?  (Will cygwin and gcc
then talk seamlessly?)  Thanks.

Regards,

Bill
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Stefan Schmiedl <s@xss.de> wrote in message news:<20011121162457.A14575@workhorse>...
> 
> yes. search the web for a download of "cygwin" or "mingw" and you get two
> incarnations of extconf.rb's favourite compiler.
> cygwin is pretty cool, as it aims at providing unix on windows.
> you get a bash-console and lots of neat unix utils, too.
> 
> get cygwin and do what everybody else does on unix.
> of course there will be specific differences.
> 
> have fun.
> 
> s.