From: Gordon Thiesfeld <gthiesfeld@...>
Date: 2011-02-02T02:52:18+09:00
Subject: Re: mkmf-bug under mingw without msys

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Marcel O.
<raoultranchirer@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Luis Lavena wrote in post #978878:
>> On Feb 1, 7:47am, "Marcel O." <raoultranchi...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have a problem building an extension with mkmf under windows which
>>> seems to me as a bug: I want to build the extension in an mingw
>>> environment WITHOUT msys, but mkmf contains code that if it runs in an
>>> mingw environment makes the incorrect assumption it runs under msys and
>>> needs an appropriate path conversion:
>>>
>>
>> You can build ruby without msys, but then you will have problems about
>> dependencies like bison, sed, sh and others that Ruby is expecting.
>>
>
> I don't have such dependencies. If I manually change the path in the
> generated Makefile, I can compile and link and everything works
> perfectly.
>
>> Can I know the reason of your need? RubyInstaller has been built with
>> MinGW+MSYS and both have been packaged conveniently as 'DevKit' for
>> it's transparent usage under Ruby for Windows:
>>
>> http://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/wiki/Development-Kit
>
> I know of the DevKit (and use it, too). The reasons are more for
> convenience purposes: For the deployment of the extension as a gem, the
> DevKit will be our way to go, but for the integration in our build
> process (using CMake), during which we use the extension, it would be
> easier to use the extension directly (without a gem). So I tried to
> implement it that way, and the only obstacle I had, does IMO base on an
> obvious misconception in the mkmf code: MinGW implies MSYS; although
> this is the normal case under windows due to the DevKit.
>
> I made a proposal to use the OS_TYPE environment variable, but I don't
> know if this will work on all systems. If no one can tell if this would
> work and no one else is interested in fixing this and supporting the
> MinGW-only use case, I must try to integrate the DevKit in our build
> environment. In this case: Would it be possible to integrate DevKit's
> MinGW+MSYS environment without the involvement of RubyGems.
>

You can require the devkit without rubygems.

ruby -rdevkit extconf.rb

> Kind regards
> Marcel
>
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>



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