From: WATANABE Hirofumi Date: 2003-01-29T01:10:50+09:00 Subject: Re: "undefined ref to 'flock'" when compiling 1.8 under cygwin Hi, coma_killen@fastmail.fm writes: > $ ruby extconf.rb --with-zlib-include=/usr/include > checking for deflateReset() in -lz... yes > checking for zlib.h... yes /usr/lib/zlib*.a and /usr/include/zlib.h are only for Cygwin. You need to prepare zlib for mingw32 apart from it. For example: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=23617&release_id=48747 -- eban