From: Quintus <sutniuq@...>
Date: 2011-03-04T22:24:53+09:00
Subject: Re: extconf.rb spitting out SH Makefile on windows?

Am 04.03.2011 07:10, schrieb Eric Christopherson:
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Mr Eiland <mreiland1978@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Title says it all, I'm running ruby extconf.rb in a visual studio 2008
>> pro command prompt and the resulting Makefile is not for nmake.
>>
>> All I'm wanting is to create a single function that I can call into.
>> I'm not willing to use SWIG, I see no reason to add more moving parts
>> for something that should be so simple.
>>
>> Ultimately, if I could find documentation on how to set up the visual
>> studio C++ environment so that I could compile the extension without the
>> use extconf.rb, I would prefer that, but using extconf.rb is the next
>> best thing.
> 
> Since no one's chimed in yet, I thought I would just post to say you'd
> be best served installing the RubyInstaller DevKit, which includes gcc
> and GNU make. Others might know of ways to integrate Ruby with VS, but
> the conventional wisdom seems to be to use DevKit.
> 
> 

I'd wonder if it was possible with Visual Studio anyway--All recent
Rubies have been compiled with gcc (via MinGW/MSYS), and incorporating a
C extension compiled with another compiler is not possible I think. The
OP would have to compile Ruby with MSVC as well.

Valete,
Marvin