From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2003-11-16T04:05:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Microsoft's C/C++ compiler freely available

On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 10:55:26PM +0900, Nathaniel Talbott wrote:
>   - Binary compatibility? I seem to remember someone saying that a Ruby
> built with Mingw cannot load extensions that are built with MSVC, and vice
> versa. And unlike Linux and its brethren (cousins, ancestors, etc), it is

I have been compiling extensions with Mingw and using them with Andy's
MSVC Ruby build.

It's quite a PITA however, since you have to either modify rbconfig.rb
to use Mingw or build ruby w/ Mingw, and then run (w/ that binary)
  ruby extconf.rb   # using the fresh-built Ruby (using Mingw)
  make
... now make install won't do what you want so you'd have to install
by hand or
 ruby extconf.rb
 make install
using the MSVC ruby binary.

MSVC being free (beer) is good news.


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