From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2008-03-27T03:44:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Bootstrapping Ruby with MinGW: selfhosted and test sandbox!

On 26 mar, 14:38, rogerdpack <rogerpack2...@gmail.com> 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.
>

Well, part of the idea of getting ruby build with Ruby is put it on CI
and forget about it.
Also, add it as platform to the CI and build some of the projects you
mention, with the idea of generate as output the pre-compiled
packages :-)

> Then people could use it as their dev environment and 'test it
> out' (if they work in rails, that is), and also give feedback, and
> avoid the pain of compiling their own extensions (as easy as that is
> now, thanks to Luis' build helpers).
> (I assume you also tried http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/readline.htm
> this readline?)

Yeah, tried it, all the flavors or Readline. from 4.3 source to 5.2
using mingwPORTs.

> GL!

:-)
--
Luis Lavena