From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-07-12T11:16:33+09:00
Subject: Re: i have the same problem...

On Wednesday, July 9, 2003, 8:26:08 PM, Gour wrote:

> patrick zesar (jonnypichler@gmx.net) wrote:
>> >   Creating library file: libcygwin-ruby18.dll.a
>> >   ./ext/extmk.rb:28:in `require': No such file to load -- mkmf(LoadError)
>> >           from ./ext/extmk.rb:28
>> 
>> yeah - i get this one too but i didn't dare to ask this in the group - i
>> just thought i was too stupid. good to know there are other people having
>> the same problem :-))

> Although it's not the real solution, but I just compiled Ruby with MinGW in MSYS
> environment.

Hmmmmm.... I just gave that a go and it worked (to a certain extent).
I wonder why the difference.

Under MinGW, "make install" does not install ruby.exe anywhere,
though.  It only creates the /usr/local/lib directory.

Gavin