On May 27, 5:47 ¨Βν¬ ΆΚΔ®Όκδεϊεξ®®®ΐηναιμ®γονχςοτεΊ
> Hi Luis,
>
> Wish I would have known this before I did all the things I just finished
> doing.
>
> I figured out that I was missing cl.exe and so I grabbed the latest
> visual studio 2008 express and installed it and then encountered
> problems with path variables.
>
> So, I updated all of the path variables and went to run the gem install
> and encountered the ..
>
> MSC Version Mismatch error..
>
> At which point I looked through the doc notes for opengl and saw that
> the compiler has to be MSC 6.0 (which I believe the latest version I
> have is not compatible).
>
> So, before I go heads into another session of fix this/fix that.. let me
> make sure I understand what it is you are saying..
>
> The version I need is no longer available unless I have a license so I
> need to play with the one-click-installer that's based on GCC?
>
> No other way around it eh?
>

Well, you can get VC8/9 to build extension for VC6 version of RUby,
but is not the best approach I'll suggest (if you appreciate your
mental health).

GCC based Ruby is the candidate for One-Click Installer, since
building extensions with 12 years old compiler is kind of obsolete
(that is VC6).

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Luis Lavena