From: Giuseppe Bilotta <bilotta78@...>
Date: 2002-08-23T17:37:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie question. How to install a new package?

WATANABE Hirofumi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Giuseppe Bilotta <bilotta78@hotpop.com> writes:
> 
> > > 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 :(
> 
> Try this:
>   http://www.ruby-lang.org/~eban/ruby/binaries/mingw/mingw32-ruby16-to-mswin32-ruby16.zip
> 
> Unzip and copy mingw32-ruby16.dll to c:\ruby\bin, then it will work.

Thanks. I'll give it a try when I'm back online. (Not that I like 
adding more DLLs ... after all, that's the reason I didn't get the 
CygWin port of Ruby ...)

-- 
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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