From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-01-12T20:26:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Cygwin Ruby Woes

On Sunday, January 12, 2003, 10:06:16 AM, Mark wrote:

>>Hello, I recently switched from the one-click Windows installer ruby to
>>cygwin ruby because I'm writing some C extensions.

> If the C extensions are not Unix-specific (ie use fork()) then you
> can use mingw (www.mingw.org) to compile them.  It gives you gcc
> plus some additional tools.  That way you can keep the one-click
> installer ...

Has anyone gone down this path?  Have you installed a complete
unix-like environment based on mingw?  I'd be very interested to know
some details.

Gavin