From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2008-03-28T09:58:05+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Bootstrapping Ruby with MinGW: selfhosted and test sandbox!


This is all working very smoothly for me, following the recipe.

I ended up with a ruby/mingw32 installation which my program can use to 
dynamically compile its parts that are generated C code, and run 20%-50% 
faster than using msvc6 and oci. This is also far preferable than 
requiring users to have msvc6 installed if they make changes that 
require recompilation of the generated C code.

The only slight hiccup was figuring out that I needed to put 
sandbox/ruby_mingw/bin on my PATH, but that's really pretty obvious.

I hope someone is able to fix readline, though...

Thanks, Luis!

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