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On 7/18/06, ara.t.howard / noaa.gov <ara.t.howard / noaa.gov> wrote:
>
> 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.


Ara, could you please post a link to your MinGW writeup to this thread.

Thanks,
Curt

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