Hello, i'm regularly using ruby on a win32 environment, and i'd like to know if any of you has some general indications on how to build extensions in a MINGW32 environment, so as to get mswin compatible binaries without the cost of a Visual Studio Licence. I found that WATANABE Hirofumi, aka eban, has ported many packages and gives access to compiled binaries [1] and I believe he built these packages on a linux box. If these indication allowed me to cross compile from linux to windows, it would be enough for me. I'd just like to be able to have the equivalent ability on both platforms. TIA, 1: http://www.ruby-lang.org/~eban/ruby/binaries/mingw/ -- Pierre Baillet Our bodies are given life from the midst of nothingness. Existing where there is nothing is the meaning of the phrase, "form is emptiness." That all things are provided for by nothingness is the meaning of the phrase, "Emptiness is form." One should not think that these are two separate things. Ghost Dog - The Way of the Samoura