From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2001-12-05T00:26:27+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27453] Re: Questions building i586-mswin32 version of Ruby

At Tue, 4 Dec 2001 03:04:56 +0900,
Bob Calco <rcalco@cortechs.com> wrote:
> * I tried renaming the executables ruby32 and ruby32w, but this forces the
> dll to get changed to mswin32-ruby3216, unless I change it. This caused the
> win32ole for mswin32 extension module to fail, because it was looking
> specifically for mswin32-ruby16.dll. So I went ahead and stuck with the
> standard names. I wanted it to be ruby32 because I didn't want it to
> conflict with ruby (cygwin) in my PATH, and I could try out the same scripts
> using both versions on my system. Any thoughts on other ramifications of
> changing the executable names?

# Why 32? I guess it should be reserved for future use, ruby
# 3.2.x. :-).

(1) rename ruby.exe as you like after built.

(2) edit RUBY_INSTALL_NAME and RUBY_SO_NAME in Makefile, or run
    nmake with macro variables.

      > nmake RUBY_INSTALL_NAME=ruby16-mswin32 RUBY_SO_NAME=mswin32-ruby16


Nobu Nakada