From: John Snowdon <j.p.snowdon@...>
Date: 2008-03-10T17:44:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on WinCE / cegcc

Mike Shock wrote:
> Thanks, John!
> It's great to have 1.8.6 working on my iPAQ 4150.
> 
> Thanks again.
> Mike Shock
> 
> John Snowdon пишет:

Thanks Dominik and Mike, it's great to hear positive feedback - I've had 
no-one contact me so I didn't even know if people had tried this 
version.

Anyway, I have done a little more work - at one point I managed to get 
ruby and all of the extensions to build dynamically; the size was 
reduced dramatically. I also managed to build a dll version of libz 
which the extension for ruby correctly linked against. Couldn't manage 
the same for OpenSSL yet though, which results in the ruby openssl 
extensions being around 500Kbytes in size with the statically linked 
libssl and libcrypto libraries.

One problem is that the actual dynamic ruby binary wouldn't run on the 
device. That's something I'm going to have to investigate further.

On a more positive note, I would say that approximately 60-70% of the 
ruby regression tests work with only minor edits (mostly where they do 
local 'requires' for test files). It's the others that need looking at - 
test_imap.rb for example gives the 'cannot allocate memory' problem.

-John
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