From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2007-08-21T22:32:17+09:00
Subject: Re: MS VC++ Toolkit 2003?

On 8/20/07, Tim Hunter <TimHunter@nc.rr.com> wrote:
> Austin Ziegler wrote:
> > There are some tricks others (Nobu or NaHi, IIRC) have suggested to
> > maximize cross-runtime compatibility, but my experience is that it's
> > best if you have everything built with the same runtime. Both zlib and
> > openssl are easy to do this with, but the problem *ultimately* is that
> > you need to end up doing this with every single freakin' support
> > library.
> Well, now I confess to being a  bit confused. Just how do I make a new
> RMagick-win32 gem that will work with the 1.8.6 one-click installer?

For that, you need either (a) Visual Studio 6 or (b) mingw. There are
some possible minor incompatibilities with mingw, but that's probably
your best route.

-austin
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