From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2004-02-06T20:13:32+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-serialport on Win32

On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 06:45:04PM +0900, Stephan K�mper wrote:
> >This might be included in MSYS, in case you haven't installed it
> >already. It should be there since the machine I tested this on had no
> 
> I did install MSYS and the MSYSDTK as mentioned above. So I guess that 
> your MinGW gets termios.h from somewhere else, probably CygWin or 
> whatever other compiler you have installed (or available via environment 
> variables).

The only compilers I had on that machine were Cygwin & MSYS, but I don't think 
Cygwin was 'contaminating' MSYS since I ran them separately (and were
not sharing ENV vars). Maybe I'm just being silly and it didn't compile,
although I am positive I noticed the difference concerning #read; 
actually because #read blocked on MSYS' version and not on Cygwin I
thought that build was broken and used win32serial instead (actually
rewriting it & just copy-pasting the Win32 API calls). It was only later
that I realized I should have been using #sysread from the beginning.

> >other dev. tools (except cygwin's env. which was completely separated)
> >and I had no problem compiling this AFAIR.
> 
> Well, I'll try get around with Nobu's pathch (Thanks Nobu!) or try 
> CygWin then.

If you compile with Cygwin you have to use Cygwin's ruby too. I'd
consider that if you don't need the extensions bundled with the single
click installer.

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