[ruby-talk:4976] Re: What do I need to compile 1.4? -- FAQ folder candidate

Hi,

"Dave Thomas" <[e-mail]> wrote:
> "Conrad Schneiker" <[e-mail]> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > "ARIMA Yasuhiro" wrote:
> >
> > > "Glen Stampoultzis" <[e-mail]> wrote
> > >   "[ruby-talk:4951] What do I need to compile 1.4?"
> > >
> > > | Platform is Windows 98
> > >
> > > I made ruby-1.4.6 [i386-cygwin] on Windows95+cygwin.
> > >
> > > 1. Install cygwin 1.1.4
> > >
> > >    download and execute "setup.exe".
> > >    http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/
> > >
> > > 2. Treat libcygwin.a and cygwin_dll.h
> > >
> > >    http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-dev/10593
> > >
> > > 3. Get archive
> > >
> > >    ftp://ftp.netlab.co.jp/pub/lang/ruby/
> > >
> > > 4. Build ruby.exe
> > >
> > >    tar zxf ruby-1.4.6.tar.gz
> > >    cd ruby-1.4.6
> > >    ./configure --enable-shared
> > >    make
> > >    make test
> > >    make install
> >
> > I hope this comment is redundant, but I wanted to make sure that this is
> > considered for the Ruby FAQ despite what I imagine is a huge amount of
last
> > minute work by its maintainers on their Programming Ruby book .
>
>
> Well.. I'd much rather see a pre-built distribution come along that
> made this process unnecessary.

Good point, at least for the great majority of users.

However, for people that want to compile (perhaps as a sanity check prior to
dealing with extensions, or perhaps because they want to set alternative
configure options), this information should still be useful to have easy
access to. Plus this might also help expand the pool of future prospects for
supporting pre-built distributions, messing with .Net stuff, and so on.

Conrad