From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2001-12-18T11:35:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28830] Re: getting started with MinGW

At Tue, 18 Dec 2001 09:51:29 +0900,
Lorien Dunn <loriend@bigpond.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.

Since I've never built mingw ruby with mingw make, I didn't
know it.  Thanx to correct.  BTW, Mingw has its own nm, rm, sed
and so on?


Nobu Nakada.