From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2002-10-26T01:29:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Visual C++ controversy

On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 20:44:38 +0900, MikkelFJ wrote:
> Because of the controversy of using the commercial Visual C++
> compiler in the Windows distribution of Ruby, the following
> information could prove useful. Disclaimer: I'm not trying to push
> the product - I'm just saying that for people that do not have
> access to Visual C++, but want to develop Ruby extensions on
> Windows, there may be an opening:

For what it's worth, while I've had to rebuild the .lib files, I've
had few problems getting existing C-based extensions compiled with
the free Digital Mars compiler (www.digitalmars.com). It includes a
cl -> sc converter, but the cl command line is extremely limited in
size. With some work -- and I fear that I've misplaced this work,
but I might not have -- I was able to come up with the appropriate
sc command-line. This is one reason that I want to see mkmf improved
a bit (I don't yet have time to work on it) and not necessarily
assume that the builder's environment is the same as the user's
environment.

Until I upgraded to the latest version of the 1.7 installer, I was
using rd2 which requires racc. I had compiled racc with the dm
compiler. Unfortunately -- and I won't do this again -- I deleted
the racc sources so I lost at least part of my makefile changes.

-austin
-- Austin Ziegler, austin@halostatue.ca on 2002.10.25 at 12.21.36