I need some help building ruby 1.8.6 with mingw

[ochronus]

Hi all,

I'm building the most recent ruby 1.8.6 stable snapshot (build level
5000) with mingw32. Everything's fine, it builds without an error, but
the socket extension is not built. Not even if I manually add the
right switch to ./configure.
Upon checking the log in the ext/sock folder, I found that it somehow
does not find windows.h and winsock.h, though
those are both in the include path. If I try to compile a simple c
program wich includes <winsock.h>, it builds fine.
What could be the problem?

Thank you in advance,
Ochronus,
A fellow rubyist

 

[ochronus]

Hi all,

I'm building the most recent ruby 1.8.6 stable snapshot (build level
5000) with mingw32. Everything's fine, it builds without an error, but
the socket extension is not built. Not even if I manually add the
right switch to ./configure.
Upon checking the log in the ext/sock folder, I found that it somehow
does not find windows.h and winsock.h, though
those are both in the include path. If I try to compile a simple c
program wich includes <winsock.h>, it builds fine.
What could be the problem?

Thank you in advance,
Ochronus,
A fellow rubyist

Solved

It seems I had a nonstandard mingw installation, now, after
reinstalling and fixing some minor annoyances, it works like a charm.