From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2008-04-04T15:45:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Bootstrapping Ruby with MinGW: selfhosted and test sandbox!

On Mar 28, 4:02 pm, euma...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hey Luis,
>
> I've been working on trying to do a MinGW environment, so that I can
> work on a MinGW Compile of wxRuby for Windows.  The only thing I have
> to say, is congrats, and you have made my day!  The sandbox
> development environment that you setup with the rakefiles, is exactly
> what I needed, so desperately.  Thank you so much for this, I'm
> running the rake for installer3, to get everything I need setup.  I
> seriously recommend that you setup a OCI just for the Development
> Environment itself!

Another great news!, wow, now three major extensions/gems that works
with MinGW build!

wxRuby, RMagick and Ruby-GNOME (comment on my blog [1])

This is excellent!

> MinGW and MSys has unfortunatly come up short for
> me on many occasions on trying to get a full compiler environment
> setup on Windows, that I'm use to on Linux, through their installers,
> and setups.  If things work the way that I believe they are going to,
> this is going to make my day!
>

Yeah, getting a MinGW environment is a real pain. I tried create it
manually several times that got tired and wrote the first rake tasks
to do it for me ;-)

> Keep up the good work, (Especially for us developers who are less then
> familiar with trying to get Ruby going, let alone work on our own
> Extensions!  LOL)

Hehehe, I will :-D

> L8ers,
>
> ---
> Mario Steele

[1] http://blog.mmediasys.com/2008/03/29/progress-of-one-click-installer-rubyinstaller/

Regards,
--
Luis Lavena