Windows extensions with MINGW

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Hi all,

I try to build/install Ruby 1.8.0 from sources on Windows, by using
MINGW (gcc) + MSYS (set of various unix utilities)

configure, make, make test & make install work very well,
but none extensions are installed properly !!!

In fact, they are properly compiled (all .so files exist), but it seems they
aren’t
copied into the lib directory.

When I try to compile an extension manually (make install in its directory),
it works perfectly though.
So why aren’t these extensions installed automatically ?

Thanks in advance,

rix

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Eric Landuyt wrote:

Hi all,

I try to build/install Ruby 1.8.0 from sources on Windows, by using
MINGW (gcc) + MSYS (set of various unix utilities)

configure, make, make test & make install work very well,
but none extensions are installed properly !!!

In fact, they are properly compiled (all .so files exist), but it seems they
aren’t
copied into the lib directory.

When I try to compile an extension manually (make install in its directory),
it works perfectly though.
So why aren’t these extensions installed automatically ?

Thanks in advance,

rix

Try /lib/ruby/1.8/i386-mingw32
besides that, can you use 'em? like:

require ‘tk’

or anyother of the so extensions?