From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-02-13T09:03:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows support

Hi,

At Thu, 13 Feb 2003 05:40:35 +0900,
Daniel Carrera wrote:
> 1) Does Microsoft's Visual C++ provide a 'make' program?
> If not, how can I get Ruby to compile C code automatically?

Half yes.
# I call it Not-MAKE or Nasty-MAKE.

In 1.8, extension of mingw and mswin are binary compatible, so
you don't have to use VC++.  In the fact, they are installed to
same directory.

> 3) What other C compilers should I support?

Borland's complier is supported in 1.8 now.  Take a glance at
lib/mkmf.rb.

-- 
Nobu Nakada