My thoughts are that for Windows we need a binary packaging
system, perhaps integrated with the Windows versions of ruby.
Once all the packages are compliant it should be
straightforward to build all of the RAA-Packages as a batch.
Personally, I’ve not built any C-packages on Windows (except
cygwin but that’s a bit different). How is it done? Is it
usually done through VC++ or some other way? Is it possible
to build ./configure scripts to build things that don’t
depend on the cygwin dll?
Well, I know that djgpp works fine for me
on Windows. (This is the DeLorie version
of gcc – may not be latest – not sure
why it’s called that, but the executable
is just gcc.exe as you’d expect).
Now, having said that, I have not
compiled Ruby on Windows (though I have
on other platforms, of course). Nor have
I tried to install a Ruby package that
needed a C compiler. I should try that.
At any rate, I’ve heard that this is
theoretically possible with VC++ (and I
think there are even build notes for it).
So I think it should be possible with a
Windows gcc also (without Cygwin, which I
haven’t used lately).
My thoughts are that for Windows we need a binary packaging
system, perhaps integrated with the Windows versions of ruby.
Once all the packages are compliant it should be
straightforward to build all of the RAA-Packages as a batch.
Personally, I’ve not built any C-packages on Windows (except
cygwin but that’s a bit different). How is it done? Is it
usually done through VC++ or some other way? Is it possible
to build ./configure scripts to build things that don’t
depend on the cygwin dll?
on Windows. (This is the DeLorie version
of gcc – may not be latest – not sure
why it’s called that, but the executable
IIRC he claimed that his legal first name was ‘DJ’ on his webpage,
not sure if it was a joke or not.
is just gcc.exe as you’d expect).
Now, having said that, I have not
compiled Ruby on Windows (though I have
on other platforms, of course). Nor have
I tried to install a Ruby package that
needed a C compiler. I should try that.
At any rate, I’ve heard that this is
theoretically possible with VC++ (and I
think there are even build notes for it).
So I think it should be possible with a
Windows gcc also (without Cygwin, which I
haven’t used lately).
mingw and stuff, I believe
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On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 02:08:21AM +0900, Hal E. Fulton wrote:
