OS X will only have a compiler if either the Apple Developer Tools have
been installed (a free but huge download if necessary) or the user has a
third-party compiler installed (though I doubt you’d want to automate
using one, such as CodeWarrior). Dunno about zlib, I’m not at home on
my Mac.
Al
···
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Carrera [mailto:dcarrera@math.umd.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 2:33 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: Ruby Download options
Alright, good to know. I have mentioned that on the website. This
brings up another=20
point:
Does Mac OS X have zlib? Does the one-click Windows installer provide
zlib?
I now that OS X comes with Ruby, but it won’t be version 1.8.0, correct?
Does OS X=20
come with everything needed to compile Ruby? I imagine it does not.
Cheers,
Daniel.
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 04:42:21PM -0600, Lyle Johnson wrote:
Daniel Carrera wrote:
=20
Q1: Am I right to assume that Ruby 1.8.0 should provide zlib in all=20
platforms?
=20
Well… The ‘zlib’ extension module depends on the zlib library=20
(http://www.gzip.org/zlib) being installed at build time. I think this
is pretty much a given on Linux, but probably not so for other flavors
of Unix (say, Solaris). For those platforms, one would want to first=20
download and install the zlib library, then configure, build and=20
install Ruby 1.8.0. Otherwise the Ruby build will just skip over the=20
build and installation of the ‘zlib’ extension module.
–=20
Daniel Carrera | OpenPGP KeyID: 9AF77A88
PhD grad student. |=20
Mathematics Dept. | “To understand recursion, you must first
UMD, College Park | understand recursion”.
I haven’t installed this myself (I compiled mine) so I can’t tell you
about zlib, but here’s a binary installer of 1.8.0:
http://homepage.mac.com/digibren/FileSharing1.html
David
···
On Tuesday, October 28, 2003, at 05:36 PM, Albert Chou wrote:
OS X will only have a compiler if either the Apple Developer Tools have
been installed (a free but huge download if necessary) or the user has
a
third-party compiler installed (though I doubt you’d want to automate
using one, such as CodeWarrior). Dunno about zlib, I’m not at home on
my Mac.
Al
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Carrera [mailto:dcarrera@math.umd.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 2:33 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: Ruby Download options
Alright, good to know. I have mentioned that on the website. This
brings up another=20
point:
Does Mac OS X have zlib? Does the one-click Windows installer provide
zlib?
I now that OS X comes with Ruby, but it won’t be version 1.8.0,
correct?
Does OS X=20
come with everything needed to compile Ruby? I imagine it does not.
Cheers,
Daniel.
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 04:42:21PM -0600, Lyle Johnson wrote:
Daniel Carrera wrote:
=20
Q1: Am I right to assume that Ruby 1.8.0 should provide zlib in
all=20
platforms?
=20
Well… The ‘zlib’ extension module depends on the zlib library=20
(http://www.gzip.org/zlib) being installed at build time. I think this
is pretty much a given on Linux, but probably not so for other flavors
of Unix (say, Solaris). For those platforms, one would want to
first=20
download and install the zlib library, then configure, build and=20
install Ruby 1.8.0. Otherwise the Ruby build will just skip over
the=20
build and installation of the ‘zlib’ extension module.
–=20
Daniel Carrera | OpenPGP KeyID: 9AF77A88
PhD grad student. |=20
Mathematics Dept. | “To understand recursion, you must first
UMD, College Park | understand recursion”.