On 6/27/06, Randy W. Sims <ml-ruby / thepierianspring.org> wrote:
> I'm not sure this is possible. This has come up quite often in the Perl
> community. The problem is that the C library is responsible for
> allocating and deallocating certain resources that cannot be shared
> across different run-times (memory, I/O buffers, thread synchronization
> objects for multi-threaded run-times, etc.)

I understand this. However, I spent 45 minutes on the phone with the
Visual Studio team yesterday, and they really seem interested in
trying to make things much easier for people to work with. Aside from
the ./configure && make && make install issues that Ara Howard pointed
out, the *most* likely setup with this would probably be Ruby and all
extensions compiled with VS 2005 using base libraries that may have
been compiled with any other compiler and runtime.

Remember: I'm collecting feedback for the VS team, not me directly.
I'm aware of a number of the problems, but am looking for
*documentation* so that we can try to have solutions made.

-austin
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