From: Armin Armbruster <aarmbruster@...>
Date: 2007-08-24T23:09:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Using rb-gsl with Windows

ara.t.howard wrote:

> a gem won't help you since the windows ruby is crippled : it has no
> built in compiler tool chain and this is precisely what gems use to
> bootstrap these kinds of gems.  the only option is a binary
> installation of the entire gsl along side rb-gsl which is essentially
> what my installer is.

Thanks for your help Ara. I'll have a look into your installer. I should 
be able to re-use it for installing 1.9.2 (not that it really matters 
for what I'm doing, but I'm just that kind of guy that always wants the 
latest and greatest ... and then gets burned :) ). But first I'm going 
on holidays :).

Funny enough, I was able to run a few of the examples by copying the 
files from /lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8 in cygwin to the correspoinding place 
in my c:\ruby windows installation. The only thing I had to do is to add 
the c:\cygwin\bin to my PATH variable and run ruby with the -S switch. I 
realize that this isn't a "clean" way of doing things but interesting 
nevertheless.
Obviously the samples that require graphics output don't work 
(histo2d.rb for example).

Coming back to cygwin:
Can anybody tell me why I can't run the graphics sample like histo2d.rb 
from within cygwin? As mentioned in my first post I have plotutils 
installed (from cygwin setup.exe). I also have cygwin/x installed and 
running, although I'm not sure if it's required at all. To be honest I 
never use cygwin/x.

Thanks,
Armin
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