From: Luis Lavena Date: 2008-04-04T15:40:09+09:00 Subject: Re: Bootstrapping Ruby with MinGW: selfhosted and test sandbox! On Apr 4, 12:43 am, Tim Hunter wrote: > Luis Lavena wrote: > > Hello List, > > > I'm happy to announce that huge progress (hack-a-ton) was made this > > weekend to bring a new implementation of One-Click Installer for > > Windows! > > Just in one evening I've been able to get everything installed and built > and use the resulting version of Ruby to build RMagick. Very nice! > Wow, thats excellent news! Is great to know that RMagick works on this! > I had to scratch my head a bit before I figured out what changes I > needed to make to my PATH but other than that everything went very smoothly. > Hehehe, yeah, it still lacks a bit of *cough* documentation *cough* :- P These recipes will be used to create One-Click Ruby Installer and also the Developer Kit I commented in my blog [1] The idea is those gem developers or users that requires compilation in any sort, can download and get a developement compiler more faster than figure out MinGW setup and all that pain :-P > This says good things about...well...everything, actually. Good work, > Luis, and thanks! I'm looking forward to being able to rely on this > environment for Ruby on Windows. > Thank you!, I'm looking forward for this too! Next step involves the creation of Windows Installers to be a real "one-click" installation solution ;-) [1] http://blog.mmediasys.com/2008/03/29/progress-of-one-click-installer-rubyinstaller Thank you for your time, kind words and perseverance! -- Luis Lavena