From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-10-02T18:12:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Targeting Borland's compiler on Windows


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bulat Ziganshin" <bulatz@integ.ru>
>
> >> 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?
>
>  Bulat                            mailto:bulatz@integ.ru

If you suggest compiling with mingw or cygwin, then I must be able to compile
the extension with bcc, so long as I compile Ruby with bcc in the first place.
I will try this tomorrow.

(I've tried Cygwin before, but fell over with 'dlltool' trying to convert a
library...)

Gavin