From: Giuseppe Bilotta <bilotta78@...>
Date: 2002-08-23T00:35:52+09:00
Subject: RE: Newbie question. How to install a new package?

CRIBBSJ wrote:
> 
> I could be totally wrong, but if you put the .so (which is the library
> already compiled) you then just do a 'require' in your script.  You don't
> have to worry about grabbing the source to bdb and compiling.

Bingo! You're totally right!

> 
> However, if the .so you grabbed was compiled using mingw, I'm not sure if it
> will work with the msvc-compiled version of ruby.
> 

Bingo again :(

Rats.

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