On 6/27/06, Daniel Berger <djberg96 / gmail.com> wrote:
> Austin Ziegler wrote:
> > They asked for as much information as I can gather on this matter. If
> > you have had problems trying to get Ruby or an extension compiled or
> > running on Windows for any reason, but especially because of Microsoft
> > runtime DLL differences, please provide me as much information as
> > possible so that I can pass it on to the VS team at Microsoft.
> The only build issues I've had relate to nmake.  It doesn't seem to be
> entirely compatible with make.  For example, the last time I tried to
> compile bdb or pl-ruby, it choked on the Makefile.

This may actually be a problem with the Makefile for bdb or pl-ruby,
because while nmake is a *variant* of make, most "Unix" makefiles are
actually GNUMake files.

> As far as running some of my extensions, sometimes I get random
> segfaults if I don't build with VC++ 6.  The most notorious one is
> win32-open3.

If you're able to collect any information about that, I'd appreciate it.

> Note that Heesob had an interesting post that dealt with this issue, but
> now I can't find the dang thing.

That would be useful if it can be found.

-austin
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