From: Lorien Dunn <loriend@...>
Date: 2001-12-18T09:51:29+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28824] Re: getting started with MinGW

On Mon, 17 Dec 2001 12:50, Nobu Nakada wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At Mon, 17 Dec 2001 15:15:53 +0900,
>
> SHULTZ,BARRY (HP-Israel,ex1) <barry_shultz@hp.com> wrote:
> >  I'd like to be able to compile Ruby on my NT4 box using MinGW. I found
> > ruby-talk:22083, but ( excuse my ignorance ) I can't find
> > a shell in MinGW where I could run configure from. I haven't
> > located any relevant documentation.  Help?
>
> You can use cygwin's shell.  Unless I'm wrong, cygwin would be
> necessery to compile for mingw.
>

	Only some parts of cygwin are needed. I think it is just sh and cygwin.dll, 
but the mingw make is buggy, so its best to use cygwin make as well. There 
used to be a link in the FOX (as in the FOX used by FXRuby) FAQ to a hybrid 
cygwin/mingw setup put together by Sam Lantinga (of SDL fame). It would be a 
bit old by now though. I used it as a base to put together my own hybrid 
system.


Lorien Dunn