From: Albert Wagner <alwagner@...>
Date: 2001-11-25T09:27:59+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26389] Re: The results are in...

On Saturday 24 November 2001 05:03 pm, you wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, Albert Wagner wrote:
> > > This won't happen overnight, so now's a good time to be thinking of
> > > issues we'll need to address.
> >
> > The biggest issue to me is compiling extensions in MinGW.  I don't have,
> > nor will I buy MSVC.  The extensions I used compiled easilly in Cygwin
> > using Linux techniques.  MinGW looks wierd to me, coming from Linux.
>
> Do you really think this will affect what you'll be able to do on
> cygwin? AFAIK, the Ruby tarball can be built without special treatment on
> Cygwin since its close enough to the Unix env were Ruby is developed. What
> am I missing here?

There is more in the ruby.exe than ruby itself.  

>
> /Robert