From: Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
Date: 2008-09-28T02:36:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Gem update on Windows is broken?

> OCI based on MinGW even is edgy I use on a daily basis, but be warned:
> 
> You will require install what we call the development kit, which is
> MinGW (GCC) and, as any *nix OS, you will require the libraries and
> the headers for the extensions that depend on externals, like SQLite3
> or MySQL.
> 
> Last time I tried to build sqlite3-ruby for MinGW (or even VC6) had a
> lot of troubles (and didn't find time to play again).
> 
> MySQL, on the other hand, has binaries, also win32console:
> 
> gem list --source http://gems.rubyinstaller.org

Wow nice! Rmagick et al. Go OCI team. mingw's looking better every day.
Note that sqlite3 appears to have [?] mingw binaries [1]

-=R
[1] http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2008/8/27/sqlite3-ruby-1-2-3
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