From: The Higgs bozo Date: 2008-12-22T07:16:37+09:00 Subject: Re: Pure Ruby Zlib::GzipWriter Daniel Berger wrote: > > What's my motivation? Mainly MS Windows. I run a hand built version of > Ruby, and getting the zlib wrapper to build with MS VC++ is such a > colossal PITA that I'd like to avoid it completely. Beyond that, > however, is that it eliminates a third party dependency (zlib) and > gives me the ability to create gems. At the moment I can only read > them. As a cheap shortcut, could you store a base64-encoded zlib dll in a .rb file, decode it, then call it with DL or FFI? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.