I need some help building ruby 1.8.6 with mingw

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Hi all,

I'm building the most recent ruby 1.8.6 stable snapshot (build level
5000) with mingw32. Everything's fine, it builds without an error, but
the socket extension is not built. Not even if I manually add the
right switch to ./configure.
Upon checking the log in the ext/sock folder, I found that it somehow
does not find windows.h and winsock.h, though
those are both in the include path. If I try to compile a simple c
program wich includes <winsock.h>, it builds fine.
What could be the problem?

Thank you in advance,
Ochronus,
A fellow rubyist :slight_smile:

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Solved :slight_smile:

It seems I had a nonstandard mingw installation, now, after
reinstalling and fixing some minor annoyances, it works like a charm.

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On szept. 27, 21:53, "ochro...@gmail.com" <ochro...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,

I'm building the most recent ruby 1.8.6 stable snapshot (build level
5000) with mingw32. Everything's fine, it builds without an error, but
the socket extension is not built. Not even if I manually add the
right switch to ./configure.
Upon checking the log in the ext/sock folder, I found that it somehow
does not find windows.h and winsock.h, though
those are both in the include path. If I try to compile a simple c
program wich includes <winsock.h>, it builds fine.
What could be the problem?

Thank you in advance,
Ochronus,
A fellow rubyist :slight_smile: