From: daz <dooby@...10.karoo.co.uk>
Date: 2004-05-07T11:18:57+09:00
Subject: Re: miniruby.exe & statically linked ruby.exe (Windows)


Phil Tomson wrote:
> daz wrote:
> >
> >Phil Tomson wrote:
> >
> >> I've been trying to build a statically linked ruby.exe on windows using
> >> MSVC.  I think I might have been successful, ...
> >
> >I think so, too.
>
> Actually, now I don't think so...
>
> As you'll recall, I ended up with miniruby.exe and ruby.exe being the same
> size.  We figured that they were equivilent (which they seem to be),
> however, the missing part of miniruby.exe is that it can't load shared
> libs (Win32API.so in this case) and neither can the ruby.exe built this
> way.... back to the drawing board.
>
> Phil


Well that'll be because Win32API.so is still dynamically linked to the
ruby dll which is not in your new path.

Time to try the ext\Setup method of static linking libraries?


daz