Roger Pack wrote: > There's a branch that has 1.8.6 with the patches. I believe it's stable > though it hasn't seen as much work as the 1.8.7 line. > here's some refs: > how to build mingw from scratch: > http://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/tree/master > [run rake] > http://github.com/brentr/matzruby/tree/v1_8_7_72-mbari > look at the other branches. > I may be able to come up with a binary. > -=r cool, guess i have to get git after all. (i'm still a SVN user) and don't have any compiler on my XP vmware installation yet. so i suppose i need to spent some time first to install everything before i can try that. PITA! i wonder if it would work to cross-compile from OSX. but i'll have some extra spare time next weeks anyway, so i now know how to spend it ;) ralf -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.