You could download and tweak the source for the mingw download. I think :) http://www.akitaonrails.com/2008/7/21/testing-the-new-one-click-ruby-installer-for-windows http://www.akitaonrails.com/2008/7/26/still-playing-with-ruby-on-windows http://rubyinstaller.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Mingw Those talk about how to compile it with mingw. With MSVC I'm not sure how :) Good luck. -R Ronn Ross wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm running Ruby on windows xp. I made changes to the keywords file and > would like to recompile the Ruby source to see my changes. How do I > recompile Ruby source on windows? > > Thanks in advance -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.