On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Lyle Johnson wrote:

> 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.

that's odd - i installed and compiled straight away... i'm at an airport now
but it actually wrote up what i did - i'll dig it out when i get back.  in any
case i assure you it can be done... make sure you've got mingw installed
correctly and do someting like

   ./configure --prefix=/c/usr/local && make && make install

good luck.

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