From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2008-01-04T04:22:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows Compilation Madness

Luis Lavena wrote:
> Roger Pack suggested me to bundle MinGW in a gem...:
> 
> 1) a 8MB gem (!!!)
> 2) because mingw is inside the gem, will not be easy hook it into PATH
> 3) that didn't solve the rbconfig issues.

That would be great, if it can be made to work. I have ruby programs 
that require C compilation to work (code is generated based on user 
input in a ruby-based DSL). The hard part is setting up the compiler on 
the user's computer.

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