From: Luis Lavena Date: 2008-03-24T14:30:01+09:00 Subject: [ANN] Bootstrapping Ruby with MinGW: selfhosted and test sandbox! Hello List, I'm happy to announce that huge progress (hack-a-ton) was made this weekend to bring a new implementation of One-Click Installer for Windows! This test version is based on the rake recipes I commented on previous posts [1], and it download MinGW, MSYS and some Ruby dependencies to get a working Ruby implementation using MinGW (i386-mingw32 platform). I've packaged Ruby 1.8.6 (revision 15830) as 7zip package (2.7MB). You can download it form the following URL: http://dump.mmediasys.com/installer3/ The project and the recipes code can be downloaded from here: http://code.mmediasys.com/installer3/latest.zip I'll like to point a few things before everyone start using this ruby version: THIS BUILD OF RUBY IS *NOT* READY FOR PRODUCTION. USE IT ONLY FOR TESTING PURPOSES. All the enhancements got here will be injected back in the new version of One-Click Installer for Windows. Caveats: 1) Pre-built gems for i386-mswin32 are not compatible with this build of ruby. You'll require to download sources of your favorite gems. If you haven't created the sandbox environment using the recipes, you can grab the baked mingw+msys sandbox from installer3 URL. You need to put MinGW binaries and MSYS binaries in the PATH (in that order) before firing the gem install or any build procedure. 2) Don't expect Rails, Mongrel, Merb, Sqlite3 or "name your favorite gem" will work with this release out of the box (hey, this is not even a release!). 3) The package contains the bare minimum stuff to serve as self hosting environment: Ruby 1.8.6 Zlib 1.2.3 OpenSSL 0.9.7c Readline 5.2 Iconv alternative RubyGems 1.0.1 Nothing more, nothing less. 4) Readline is still broken. I removed the readline tests from the check procedure to continue working on this (was stuck for two months without feedback). If you wanna help, search for my previous posts about this issue. For CI information: 1760 tests, 1343436 assertions, 2 failures, 0 errors 5) GNU Utils are a nightmare to get it working or find proper builds for Windows. following _why advice [2], opted for win_iconv which seems working (but there aren't tests for it). 6) Microsoft Installer (MSI) recipes are still missing. Future releases will be use WiX tools and will provide patches between releases. 7) Contributions are highly welcome! I'm using Bazaar as VCS since Windows support for Git (the new cool tool) is still behind... Remember: everything shown here will became part of the next One-Click Installer. As you can see, I'm trying to keep it to the minimum. Later we can discuss "addons" or different versions that are target different usage scenarios. Check my blog [2] for upcoming hack-a-ton dates and keep an eye on #ruby-lang if you wanna help ;-) Regards and everybody have a nice week! [1] http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-talk-google/browse_thread/thread/1e2f1b9a3d611e3b/ [2] http://blog.mmediasys.com -- Luis Lavena Multimedia systems - Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. Douglas Adams