From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2008-03-15T04:45:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Yet another Windows installer

Roger Pack wrote:
> http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/137507
> has some links to an "almost auto" mingw download+compile (basically 
> it's reduced to a rake task).  I'm not sure if he has all the 
> dependencies linked in, but I think he does.
> That would be far better than the painful experience I experienced 
> getting all the dependencies installed.
> 
> (my notes on the process: 
> http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/Win32MingwInstall)

Ah, that's sure to come in handy. Thanks.

> 
>> Hm, I'll have to look deeper into GCC than I'd like to find out if that
>> works.
>>
>> Theoretically, since my GCC install links against msvcrt.dll, extensions
>> should still work.
> 
> Yeah the extensions worked for me.

That's good news.

Well, I'll go through the info in the links with a fine comb, and find 
out how much I'll have to do. :P

-- Phillip