From: Ricardo Viegas Date: 2009-11-15T03:00:23+09:00 Subject: Re: download Ruby for Win-x64 Hi Luis! Thanks for your hint. I have already received a similar hint from Walton Hoops. I'll folow with the recommendation of both of you, and go with RubyInstaller. Best regards, Ricardo ----------------------- Ricardo Viégas São Paulo - SP - Brasil ----------------------- > -----Original Message----- > From: luislavena@gmail.com > Sent: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:40:14 +0900 > To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org > Subject: Re: download Ruby for Win-x64 > > On Nov 14, 12:16 pm, Ricardo Viegas wrote: >> Hi there! >> >> In the Web there are a lot of references to the Windows 64bits version >> of Ruby (a.k.a. x64-mswin64), but I was unable to find the site where I >> can download it. >> > > I think you mean this: > > http://www.garbagecollect.jp/ruby/mswin32/en/download/release.html > > But, be warned, is incomplete. See this ticket that has been stalled > for quite some time: > > http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/1459 > > The issue is actually simple: To be able to be fully 64bits, all > Ruby's dependencies must be compiled with 64bits. > > That means several 3rd party libraries like zlib, readline, openssl, > curses, gdbm, tk, needs to be ported and compiled to use 64bits API. > > While is doable, there is a lot of work required to do it. > > Also, to achive that in the current state, requires you depend and > install Visual Studio on a 64bits platform, since using the express > you can't cross-compile, something not all developers have right now. > > As maintainer of RubyInstaller project (known as One-Click), I'm > pretty aware of this and definitely is in our roadmap consider 64bits > versions. > > This has been asked here (at ruby-talk) before and I've pointed to my > answer from January 2008: > > http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/rubyinstaller-devel/2008-January/000230.html > > Until all the minor details are ironed, you can still use the 32bits > version with no serious performance penalty. > > I recommend you try our latest RC1 versions of the installer: > > http://rubyinstaller.org/ > http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=35591 > > Hope this helps, > -- > Luis Lavena