From: Ryan Davis Date: 2002-09-24T02:43:15+09:00 Subject: Re: [ANN] RubyInline 1.0.7 Released On Monday, September 23, 2002, at 07:44 AM, MikkelFJ wrote: > Couldn't it just depend on a C compiler with configurable settings - > Ruby > configuration seems to know about this. I am. But, as far as I can tell, most people on windows don't compile their own ruby. They get it from the pragmatic site. Unless you are running with the same setup as Dave and/or Andy, rubyconf.rb won't have the right configuration for you. > Wrt. security - that could be optional if it's a matter of running > Windows > or not. No. Security is not optional. Windows already has a black eye regarding security. I refuse to contribute. I won't let my code be responsible for an exploit on any platform. > If it has to be gcc, MingW works fine and doesn't use Cygwin. Cygwin > is not > nice to have running by comparison. OK. As I don't run windows, I can only go by word of mouth. I just looked at the webpage for MingW. It looks more like a set of utilities and headers. But does it set up a POSIX environment? It looks like MSYS does. Can someone test if this is enough for RubyInline to run? If so, I'll add it to the readme.