From: Bulat Ziganshin Date: 2002-10-02T17:51:44+09:00 Subject: Re: Targeting Borland's compiler on Windows Hello Gavin, Wednesday, October 02, 2002, 12:35:30 PM, you wrote: >> GS> i.e. it assumes that since my Ruby installation was built by MSVC, so my >> GS> extensions shall be built with MSVC. Sigh... >> are you ever assembled libraries compiled by different compilers? >> there is so many caveats... mangling conventions ("_" and so on), >> parameter passing, internal libraries (sush as for "long long" >> multiplication) GS> It *must* be possible, though? no. problems with interfacing code from two compilers is much more than hacking mkmf or just recompiling ruby with bcc. may be you can use cygwin or mingw free compilers? -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:bulatz@integ.ru