From: Guillaume Bloss <elysah@...>
Date: 2010-07-30T17:39:08+09:00
Subject: Re: 64 bit ruby installation on 64 bit windows

Yes I tried to compile ruby for 64b arch, but there is too many 
libraries to compile in 64, and at the end, I choose to use 32b version 
of ruby.

If you don't need to install any gems and just for a basic usage, it 
will work fine, but quickly you would install some gems, thaw will 
require specific libraries you will need to compile in 64b too, and then 
you will see that this specific library you will try to compile don't 
support your compiler or 64b or something like that :s

but still if you want to try, I suggest you to don't use the microsoft 
compiler, since some important library (don't remember wich one) dont 
support this compiler anymore (that's probably why the rubyinstaller 
team did not compile new rubyinstaller version with mswin32, but use 
mingw ...)

Of course you will also need to recompile all gems you want to install.
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