From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2007-12-26T07:24:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Which external modules are necessary for Ruby (1.9)?

On 25 dic, 16:00, Wolfgang Nádasi-Donner <ed.oda...@wonado.de> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I've successfully build Ruby 1.9.0 of Windows2000/MinGW/MSYS,
> installations and test were fine, but "make test-all" failed as
> expected, because "zlib" was needed.
>
> Two years ago there was a list of external tools (readline, iconv, etc.)
> available in conjunction with the binaries for windows somewhere
> available from the Ruby homepage. Unfortunately I could not find it any
> more.
>
> My question is, what are the necessary external tools for a complete
> Ruby installation (usually necessary before building Ruby from sources),
> so that the standard library can be used? - It seems that the majority
> of these tools are available on *nix systems by nature, but for Windows
> I must get them in the right version from somewhere.
>

You should check the list of extensions that need to be compiled in
Setup.nt:

http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/trunk/ext/Setup.nt

For some of them, just downloaded the -bin and -dev and -dep packages
from gnuwin32 site and unpacked into MSYS environment.

For others, like OpenSSL, you will need to compile from source.

I'm about to release a package containing ruby19 and their
dependencies to run without interfere with One-Click-Installer or any
other ruby build.
(wait for weekend) :-D

HTH,

Luis