From: Scott Preston <scotty.preston@...>
Date: 2008-06-05T04:52:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Building Windows C Extension

Thanks Jason I will give this a try.

Cheers,
Scott

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Jason Roelofs <jameskilton@gmail.com> wrote:
> Building an extension on Windows can be an exercise in frustration.
> The biggest problem is that Windows Ruby is still built with VC6 and
> thus extensions built with any later technology probably won't work.
>
> The best way I've done it is through Cygwin. There are ways of getting
> mingw to work, but it's not pretty and not guarenteed. With the
> One-Click Installer, try the following:
>
> CPPFLAGS=-D_MSC_VER=1200 LIBS=-lmsvcp60 ./configure
>
> then see if the compilation will work for you.
>
> Jason
>
> On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Scott Preston <scotty.preston@gmail.com> wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> I am sure this has been brought up before but I am having problems
>> writing a simple hello word C extension for Ruby in Windows.
>>
>> I am able to use nmake to build the library but get:
>>
>> a C++ popup with R6034 Load Error / (DLL) initialization routine
>> failed....1.8/i386-msvcrt/mytest.so (LoadError)...
>>
>> In trying to use MinGW, it does not like the makefile generated by
>> extconf.rb, and gets hung up on the colon in the topdir. relative
>> pathing does not work
>>
>> So I am out of luck on both accounts.
>>
>> Any help appriciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Scott
>>
>>
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