From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-11-25T12:46:56+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26412] Re: The results are in...

"Mark Hahn" <mchahn@facelink.com> writes:

> I think you accidently answered a question I posted earlier today.  Am I too
> interpret this thread as saying that a Ruby compiled in Cygwin cannot load a
> DLL compiled from MSVC?
> 
> When I heard that Ruby could load either a .so or a .DLL I assumed the .so
> was from cygwin and the .DLL was from MSVC (or compatible).  This is wrong?

It cannot load .dll's directly, although there is a technology that
lets you wrap .DLLs into .so's

I'm still surprised at the results of the poll.


Dave