From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2009-08-03T04:05:06+09:00
Subject: Re: does anyone have Ruby 1.9 64b for Windows working?

On Aug 2, 2:43 pm, Nick Brown <n...@nick-brown.com> wrote:
> The "one click installer" is great, but the Ruby website provides no
> such installer for Ruby 1.9 64b on Windows.
>

Unless you're going intereacting with 64bits processes, services or
64bit only libraries, there is no need you use a 64bits version of
Ruby.

> There is an old Ruby 1.9.1-p0 64b Windows binary available onhttp://www.garbagecollect.jp/ruby/mswin32/en/, but it hasn't been
> updated since January, and it does not come with the necessary libraries
> (like zlib).
>

AFAIK for that to work you would require all these binaries IN 64bits
version.

> Has anyone here had success with this without having to compile
> everything from scratch? How did you do it?
>

You NEED to build everything from scratch to avoid memory allocation
issues due different version of C Runtime libraries (CRT mismatch).

> And if the only way to get this platform working is by compiling from
> scratch, what's the best way to do that? Can it be done with Visual C++
> 2008 Express Edition?

Yes, with lot of sweat and huge amount of caffeine. Last time took me
build everything used by Ruby (zlib, readline and others) 3 or 4 days
of work.

> It sure would be nice if Ruby 1.9 on Win64 were a "first class" ruby
> platform... :-(

As I commented on another thread:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_thread/thread/bab0c58e2e4b1b84#

You should ask the maintainer of these binaries (which is the
developer at garbagecollect website)

http://www.garbagecollect.jp/ruby/mswin32/en/

--
Luis Lavena