From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Date: 2003-10-29T07:32:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Download options

Alright, good to know.  I have mentioned that on the website.  This brings up another 
point:

Does Mac OS X have zlib?  Does the one-click Windows installer provide zlib?

I now that OS X comes with Ruby, but it won't be version 1.8.0, correct?  Does OS X 
come with everything needed to compile Ruby?  I imagine it does not.

Cheers,
Daniel.

On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 04:42:21PM -0600, Lyle Johnson wrote:
> Daniel Carrera wrote:
> 
> >Q1:  Am I right to assume that Ruby 1.8.0 should provide zlib in all 
> >platforms?
> 
> Well... The 'zlib' extension module depends on the zlib library 
> (http://www.gzip.org/zlib) being installed at build time. I think this 
> is pretty much a given on Linux, but probably not so for other flavors 
> of Unix (say, Solaris). For those platforms, one would want to first 
> download and install the zlib library, *then* configure, build and 
> install Ruby 1.8.0. Otherwise the Ruby build will just skip over the 
> build and installation of the 'zlib' extension module.

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