On 09/01/06, nobuyoshi nakada <nobuyoshi.nakada / ge.com> wrote:
> At Sat, 7 Jan 2006 03:48:02 +0900,
> Austin Ziegler wrote in [ruby-core:07069]:
> > The patches look good on 1.8.4.
> Thank you.


> > It would be *nice* to be able to have the manifest stuff automatically
> > applied to the .so files as well, just in case, but since they depend
> > on Ruby or the msvcr80-ruby18.dll (which *does* have the manifest
> > applied), that should be good enough. It's probably worth documenting
> > somewhere, though.
> Documentation for what, to whom, and how?

Mmmm. I think embedders who want to use VS2005 or later to compile
Ruby and their programs.

I did a little further looking, and I'm a little disheartened by the
build process in Windows and I'd like to try to figure out what we
could do to significantly improve it -- or maybe see if I can find the
build script(s) used by usa to build everything in the ruby-mswin32
download. Currently, the Windows installer downloads zlib separately
and compiles it. I haven't looked much further, but I suspect that it
does the same with a couple of other "built-in" libraries. I really
want to be able to build these libraries from an unpacked tarfile, and
am not sure where to go from here.

-austin
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