On Thu, 25 May 2006, Guest wrote:

>> fwiw i downloaded msys and compiled ruby-1.8.4 on an xp in about 10
>> minutes - no errors even.
>
> I've got mingw and msys installed on a windows 2003 box... I've got the
> path variables set, etc... how did you run ./configure on the ruby
> source???

start msys # gives you a shell

  > tar xvfz ruby-1.8.4.tar.gz
  > cd ruby-1.8.4
  > ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/ && make && make install

is all i did


what problem are you seeing?

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