I wouldn't even have thought it to be possible, but it can't hurt to ask. Curt On 8/30/06, John Lam <drjflam / gmail.com> wrote: > I just sent out a mail to some friends at MSFT to see if this is even > remotely possible. VC 6 is a really old product, but I could imagine > the approvals that would be necessary to make something like this > happen. > > I wouldn't hold my breath, but you never know ... :) > > -John > http://www.iunknown.com > > > On 8/30/06, Curt Hibbs <ml.chibbs / gmail.com> wrote: > > On 8/30/06, Berger, Daniel <Daniel.Berger / qwest.com> wrote: > > > > > > What about doing something along the lines of Strawberry Perl, i.e. > > > bundle a compiler with the distro? > > > > > > http://win32.perl.org/wiki/index.php?title=Strawberry_Perl > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Dan > > > > That's a very interesting idea. It would really provide a standard > > environment for building ruby extensions. > > > > Curt > > > > > >