Austin Ziegler wrote:
> On 8/31/06, Brian Hicks <bwhicks / aep.com> wrote:
>> I did it the other day just to see if I could. I downloaded the source
>> from www.ruby-lang.org and followed the readme in the win32 directory
>> and had zero problems. I haven't tested the result much, though...
>>
>> Oh yeah, this was 32-bit, also. In case anyone cares...
>
> Right. Building Ruby itself is dead simple.
>
> Now try to build the RMagick extension and get it to work. (Note: I
> haven't tried it, personally. It *might* work.)
>
> There are some tricks to getting it all to work, but at some point you
> have to build your own version of a lot of libraries.
>
> -austin
Or you could just ask those who've done it. Kaspar Schiess did the Win32 
versions of RMagick for several years. With practice he got it down to a 
2-day task. Brett DiFrischia did the latest version, 1.13.0. That one 
took 6 weeks. One of the biggest problems (AFAIK) is RMagick's configure 
script, which has easily over 100 feature tests and of course doesn't 
work at all on Windows.