On Tuesday, February 18, 2003, 10:41:29 AM, Pierre wrote:

> 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 can only give an extremely general indication, and that is that
everything should work fine.  The dependencies are:
  - gcc
  - make
  - ruby
and they're all present *if* (perhaps not only if) you build Ruby with
mingw (that way, Ruby's insternal config knows what compiler, what
directories, etc.)

I vaguely remember having some trouble compiling stuff under mingw
when my "ruby" was the native windows one.  Building Ruby under mingw
is easy and should lead to the path of happiness.

Gavin