From: Alex Gutteridge <alexg@...>
Date: 2011-03-02T17:23:59+09:00
Subject: Re: trouble to install rsruby on windows XP

 On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 08:10:22 +0900, Luis Lavena wrote:
> On Mar 1, 6:28 am, Alex Gutteridge <al...@ruggedtextile.com> wrote:
>>
>>  Hi Pascal,
>>
>>  As far as I know RSRuby doesn't install/work on Windows. It should 
>> be
>>  possible to modify the source/build code to make it build, but I 
>> don't
>>  have a Windows machine (or the time!) to do that work myself -
>>  apologies. RSRuby does install fine on *nix based systems or if you 
>> are
>>  tied to Windows I think RPy (the equivalent Python package) does 
>> install
>>  on Windows.
>>
>
> Hello Alex,
>
> Perhaps something like rake-compiler and it's cross-platform
> compilation infrastructure can help you on that?
>
> http://github.com/luislavena/rake-compiler
>
> rake-compiler reduce the code required for extension compilation and
> gem packaging plus additionally you can target Ruby versions of
> Windows without the need of a real Windows machine
>
> (of course, just to compile, for testing and other it will require
> WINE or Windows)
>
> This is been used by projects like DataMapper, SQLite3-Ruby, MySQL
> gem, pg gem and others to deliver pre-compiled binaries and track 
> down
> compilation issues on Windows.
>
> Nowdays Ruby on Windows has migrated to RubyInstaller, which uses GCC
> as compiler toolchain, making things like porting more easy.
>
> As long this extension/gem is not doing sockets, threads or signals,
> things should work smoothly with the above mentioned approach.
>
> If you want, I can provide guidance and support while you introduce
> these changes.
>
> If interested, post to RubyInstaller list:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/rubyinstaller
>
> Regards,
> --
> Luis Lavena

 Thanks Luis - I'll take a look.

-- 
 Alex Gutteridge