From: Harry Ohlsen <harryo@...>
Date: 2002-09-03T21:00:59+09:00
Subject: Building extensions under Windows

I'm sure this has been discussed a hundred times, but searching for "cygwin" 
in the Ruby-Talk archive gives a million results.  I'd appreciate it if 
someone could point me at an appropriate archive entry.

What I'm trying to do is build the calendar extension for a mate of mine.  
When I run "ruby install.rb config" the Makefile it generates contains what 
look like Microsoft command-line compiler commands.

Does this imply that the extensions can only be built with VC, or is there 
some way to tell it I have cygwin (and hence gcc) installed and that it 
should generate a Makefile that uses cygwin?

Thanks in advance,

Harry O.