Joel VanderWerf wrote:

> Jim Weirich wrote:
>
>> I need to compile some ruby extensions on a windows box.  Although I've
>> done this on Linux hundreds of times, I'm not setup for developement on
>> the windows box nor am I very familiar with windows development.  
>> What do
>> I need on windows to build ruby C extensions that are compatible with 
>> the
>> one click installer?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>
> You can install MSVC:
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/


Have you actually gotten that to work? I tried building some stuff with 
that compiler when it came out, but because they got rid of the 'lib' 
program, the build failed. Maybe they've added it back in or changed 
things, but I had to drop back to MSVC6 to get ruby stuff to compile.


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