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

> 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 just did the procedure yesterday :-)

Downloaded and installed latest MinGw (2.0.0) & MSYS (1.0.9) without
cygwin package.

The only trick in building Ruby with MinGW was to replace the LDSHARED
line with: dllwrap --target=mingw32 --export-all -s 

and after compiling (on Win98) I had to run: make ruby.exe since it was
not created. Make test reports success.

I found this answer in the archives. 

Building Swig went without any problem.

Sincerely,
Gour

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