From: Aston Date: 2010-03-11T14:37:42+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby::DL vs Ruby::FFI ________________________________ From: Charles Oliver Nutter To: ruby-talk ML Sent: Wed, 10 March, 2010 8:12:11 PM Subject: Re: Ruby::DL vs Ruby::FFI On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Daniel Berger wrote: > FFI will build on Windows, so long as you're using mingw and gcc. > Actually, FFI won't build on any platform without gcc at the moment as > far as I know, so if you were thinking of building it with the Sun > Studio Compiler or the HP-UX compiler, for example, you're out of > luck. JRuby supports FFI on Windows just fine. - Charlie JRuby is of course an excellant option for us, but it can still improve if it starts supporting win32ole we need win32ole since we are required to parse some MS apps generated *.xml files and they are generated by MS DOM impl, sometimes REXML just errors out and MSXML does it fine Your Mail works best with the New Yahoo Optimized IE8. Get it NOW! http://downloads.yahoo.com/in/internetexplorer/