Cool, thanks!!! I will be patiently waiting :) On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Michal Suchanek <hramrach / centrum.cz>wrote: > On 30/01/2009, Zayd Abdullah <devrubygem / gmail.com> wrote: > > Are there going to be a one click installer for this new version? I'm > having > > trouble installing 1.9 > > > > The problem is not with Ruby itself but with the libraries it uses > (zlib for gems, readline for irb, openssl for encryption and https > networking, sqlite, ...) > > Most of these use unique build systems and have binaries built for > windows with different compilers. > > To link this all together with Ruby is a recipe for disaster. > > For that reason Luis is working on a new One Click installer which > builds all the libraries and ruby from source using the MinGW > compiler. > > Unfortunately not all of the libraries build well in the MinGW > environment out of the box (or on Windows at all) so the project > requires lots of tedious work. There are only development and testing > releases of this installer. As far as I know no final release that > includes at least all the basic parts is available. > > Thanks > > Michal > >