From: "ochronus@..." <ochronus@...>
Date: 2007-09-28T19:05:14+09:00
Subject: Re: I need some help building ruby 1.8.6 with mingw

On szept. 27, 21:53, "ochro...@gmail.com" <ochro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm building the most recent ruby 1.8.6 stable snapshot (build level
> 5000) with mingw32. Everything's fine, it builds without an error, but
> the socket extension is not built. Not even if I manually add the
> right switch to ./configure.
> Upon checking the log in the ext/sock folder, I found that it somehow
> does not find windows.h and winsock.h, though
> those are both in the include path. If I try to compile a simple c
> program wich includes <winsock.h>, it builds fine.
> What could be the problem?
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Ochronus,
> A fellow rubyist :)

Solved :)

It seems I had a nonstandard mingw installation, now, after
reinstalling and fixing some minor annoyances, it works like a charm.