From: Alan Moyer <moyer4@...>
Date: 2001-12-29T11:56:00+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29613] Extending Ruby on Windows platform using VC++ IDE

Hi,

I'm extremely new to Ruby. I've been reading the Programming Ruby book. Chap
17 - Extending Ruby discusses how to write a Ruby extension, writing a
extconf.rb program and then running the make. However, the makefile is for
the gcc compiler.

I'm not a user of gcc and I do my C and C++ building using the MS VC++
product. Is there a description anywhere of how to set the project to build
the extension using VC++?

I've done something similar with Java and JNI. In that case, the
documentation makes it very easy to build a DLL that can be called from
Java. Something similar would be a great help for Ruby.

Thanks for any help,

Al