On 7/18/06, Simon Kröçer <SimonKroeger / gmx.de> wrote:

> While i think this is all true i have to admit that it isn't really ruling out
> mingw, so i downloaded and installed it (not for the first time).
>
> I had a tough time figuring out that ruby 1.8.4 isn't compiling unmodified with
> the 'Candidate' version and how to fix that.

Seeing as I'm still a few steps behind you, could you comment on what
you had to do to get Ruby 1.8.4 to compile with MinGW? I actually
downloaded the "Current" version and not the "Candidate", but the
compile of the very first source file (array.c, I think) bombs
complaining of duplicate definitions of gettimeofday().

I'm glad to switch to either MinGW or the latest Visual C++, whatever
the community at large decides to do. But I am little concerned to
have hit this snag right out of the gate with MinGW.