On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 12:54:22AM +0900, Alex Young wrote:
> Your options are as follows:
> 
> - Rely on the kindness of others to provide Win32 builds of C extensions 
> that you need.
> - Obtain MS VC6 (somehow) and compile them yourself.
> - Obtain MinGW GCC and friends and compile them yourself.
> 
> In the first and second case, you can use the One-Click Installer Ruby. 
>  In the third case, you'll either need to compile Ruby yourself, or use 
> the MinGW build from ruby-lang.org.

You can also use extensions compiled using mingw with mswin32 (VC6) binaries,
like the one upon which the One Click Installer distro is built. All you need
is an appropriate rbconfig.rb. 

I've also had some success cross-compiling with mingw.

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