From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2008-03-27T02:48:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Bootstrapping Ruby with MinGW: selfhosted and test sandbox!


On Mar 26, 2008, at 11:39 AM, rogerdpack wrote:
> I think very useful would be a mingw build of ruby that included some
> popular gems pre-built (that is...<cough> mongrel, sqlite, mysql,
> maybe ruby-debug).  Assuming that those gems only need to be compiled
> in mingw and it works like a charm.

but, if you have ruby and mingw installed all you need to do to  
install these is 'gem install sqlite', etc.  i compiled the gsl this  
way and it was a peice of cake.  ruby + compiler = joy.

-a