From: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...>
Date: 2008-03-28T22:18:34+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Bootstrapping Ruby with MinGW: selfhosted and test sandbox!

On 28/03/2008, Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@path.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
>  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...

I have read something about pure ruby readline on this list. There's
something on RAA but the linked site is down.

Thanks

Michal