compiling ruby, fox, FXRuby on Win98 with mingw/msys

Hello all,
  I wanted to compile ruby, fox and FXRuby on a Win98 machine, using MingW and Msys.
  I was not able to do it because of several errors, so I tried it all on my Mandrake 9 linux 
  and all was fine, then tried on a Win200 box and it was slightly better then 98.
  Here follows some details, hope that someone can help me to understand what's going on ..
  
I used the following versions:
MinGW-2.0.0-3.exe
MSYS-1.0.8.exe
ruby-1.6.8.tar.gz
fox-1.0.29.tar.gz
FXRuby-1.0.17.tar.gz


under W2000
- ruby
  after making and installing ruby I got a "usr/local" dir filled with the ruby environment, 
  but this directory was on my W2000 root not in the Msys "/usr" 
  so I had to add the following line to /etc/fstab
   "d:/usr/local /usr/local"
  
   .. and all was ok 

- fox
	no problem

- FXRuby
	I had to remove "-fno-strict-prototype" from ext/fox/Makefile (after having run "ruby install.rb config")
		(unrecognized option)
	I had to add:
		"char * alloca(int);"
		to FXRbCommon.h 
		to be able to compile the cpp files using ALLOCA_N

	... but the linker		
		
		
under W98
-ruby 
	I got the following error from make
	dllwrap --target=mingw32 --as=as --dlltool-name=dlltool --driver-name=gcc --export-all -s --output-exp=ruby.exp --dllname=ruby.exe --output-lib=libmingw32-ruby1       6.a --add-stdcall-alias --def=ruby.def array.o bignum.o class.o compar.o dir.o d       ln.o enum.o error.o eval.o file.o gc.o hash.o inits.o io.o marshal.o math.o nume       ric.o object.o pack.o parse.o process.o prec.o random.o range.o re.o regex.o rub       y.o signal.o sprintf.o st.o string.o struct.o time.o util.o variable.o version.o        crypt.o flock.o isinf.o win32.o  dmyext.o dummy.res.o -lwsock32 -lmsvcrt -o dummy
	d:\ruso\MinGW\bin\dllwrap.exe: installation problem, cannot exec `gcc': No such file or directory
	make: *** [dummy] Error 1
	
	  modifying Makefile like this it goes on:
	LDSHARED = dllwrap --target=mingw32 --export-all -s
	
	... but does not create ruby.exe
	
	typing : "make ruby.exe" it does it ..

	$ make test
	test succeeded	
	
	same thing as in W2000 for the /usr/local dir 
	 .. if the /etc/fstab stuff is correct it should probably be mentioned in some "INSTALL" file ..
	 
- fox
	no problem
- FXRuby
	$ ruby install.rb config
	install.rb: entering config phase...
	---> lib
	---> lib/fox
	<--- lib/fox
	<--- lib
	---> ext
	---> ext/fox
	D:/USR/LOCAL/bin/ruby D:/RUSO/MSYS/src/FXRuby-1.0.17/ext/fox/extconf.rb 
	config failed
	'system D:/USR/LOCAL/bin/ruby D:/RUSO/MSYS/src/FXRuby-1.0.17/ext/fox/extconf.rb ' failed
	try 'ruby install.rb --help' for usage
	


Thanks in advance for any help

Enzo Piombo
[e-mail]

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