From: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...>
Date: 2008-03-20T21:27:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Yet another Windows installer

On 18/03/2008, Luis Lavena <luislavena@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 16, 2:12 pm, Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackr...@googlemail.com>
>  wrote:
>
>
>  > (IMHO, it might be a great idea to switch to a more recent version of
>  > Visual C all together, considering that the Express Edition is free, and
>  > can produce non-/NET code, but that's just my opinion).
>  >
>
>
> Jumping late on this thread (been away in vacation trip).
>
>  Switching to VC8/VC9 or even VC7 requires recompilation of
>  dependencies to use the same CRT DLL. Search the list for posts about
>  this.
>
>  Been raised before, tried several times, and is impossible to
>  accomplish without loosing your brain in the process.
>
>  I think I will move the MinGW+MSYS building process one step further
>  and use the better Windows alternatives than traditional dependencies
>  (like win_iconv that _why commented previously).
>
>  You're welcome to join us at One-Click Installer Developement List
>  (http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubyinstaller-devel).
>

As Mailman does not like my email address ( I don't know why but
Mailmen refuse to communicate with me at all) I will send the results
of trying to use the install3 zip archive here.

- there is no script for running the rake task(s), and it might not be
obvious how to run them for people who are not familiar with rake yet.

- there is no default rake action, and one has to look into the
recipes to find out what are the available actions (download, unpack,
configure, compile, install)

- rake aborts download action due to execution timeout - probably
depends on download speed

- bsdtar requires zlib1.dll which is not downloaded. This is not
normally present in the system although it might be present if you put
your ruby installation into PATH.

-there is some sort of error with directories. It appears the scripts
fail to create sandbox/ruby_build, and running configure fails because
the configure script is not found although it appears to be present.

Thanks

Michal