From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2008-01-03T19:54:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows Compilation Madness

On 3 ene, 06:41, Marc Heiler <sheve...@linuxmail.org> wrote:
> The MinGW guys should offer a complete package as .exe downloader with
> all required tools for compiling (gcc, bison, a c-lib, flex, autoconf,
> automake etc..).

Why they "should"?

a 'c-lib'? mmm, you actually don't know what are you talking about,
right? Windows C-lib is MSVCRT. (period)

Er.. actually they do, but noone really know you to use it:

- Download MinGW-5.1.3.exe, install Current or candidate packages
- Download and install msys-1.0.10.exe
- Donwload and install msysDTK-1.0.10.exe

That will give you a *nix like environment for MinGW!

Happy? Hope so, so, now the problems:

Ruby is build with VC6, that brings:

mkmf.rb (used for extconf) will not work without tweaking, since
rbconfig store sensible information about the compiler used to build
ruby, and mingw wouldn't match.

Is just me or this thread is a deja-vu? Maybe I'm getting older, but
I'm getting tired of repeating myself about this.

(Heh, not enough mood, 8:30am here).

Later,
--
Luis Lavena