From: "Mark J. Reed" <mreed@...>
Date: 2004-04-20T12:09:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Free VC++ Compiler

Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@scriptolutions.com> writes:
>So compiling against the static version of "msvcrt.lib" is okay ?

I believe so.

>But unfortunately there are a few memory leaks when doing this,
>at least _beginthread, _beginthreadEx are known to have problems in
>the static version. And we must also compile all extension ".so" files
>against the static lib, not really nice. So i think we still need
>rkprebuild windows versions.

Well, you can compile ruby and distribute the results as long as you don't 
redistribute the compiler components with it.  The users would have to 
download those themselves.

>Or we use Open Watcom or/and Borland C++ for windows compilation.

Sure.  Or even g++. :)

-Mark