From: Danny van Bruggen <danny@...>
Date: 2002-01-11T04:17:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Fixing RUDL C extension and Ruby for Visual C

> > - After editing the makefile to build "rubyw" (no console Ruby
> > executable), nmake still didn't build rubyw.exe. I had to do an additional
> > "nmake rubyw" for that, and the resulting exe doesn't work so well. (See
> > binary on my site)
> 
> How did you edit?

win32\makefile looks like this (rubyw_install_name was added manually)

### makefile for ruby mswin32 ###
srcdir = ./..
RUBY_INSTALL_NAME = ruby
RUBYW_INSTALL_NAME = rubyw
RUBY_SO_NAME = mswin32-$(RUBY_INSTALL_NAME)16
!INCLUDE $(srcdir)/win32/Makefile.sub

> > - When I try
> > ruby extconf.rb --with-whatever=somethingelse
> > the equal sign will be removed by the shell(?) and you end up with
> > "--with-whatever" set to true instead of "somethingelse". This can be
> > fixed a bit by quoting:
> > ruby extconf.rb "--with-whatever=somethingelse"
> (snip)
> > -e:1: parse error
> > File::install(ARGV[0] ARGV[1] 0555 true)
> >                                   ^
> > Where did the comma's go? They are there in the makefile...
> 
> What shell do you use?

Win98's command.com.

Danny.