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Message: [QUOTE="Kaspar Schiess, post: 4441611"] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Justin Rudd wrote: | Is it just me, or is getting anything other than standard ruby a true | ordeal on Windows? | I can second much of your experience and your problems with Ruby on windows. (I have been trough the mysql-hell myself, but have resolved it with DBI:ODBC once and for all.) I do think there is not enough attention being paid on making Ruby work on windows. But I admit that there have to be porters and packagers, people keeping the windows part alive. And with your kind of C++ experience, you seem to be predestined to contribute that way. In the way of tools, I have found the mingw package to work miracles, since it is pretty much unix-like. extconf.rb scripts work pretty much all the time under this setup, I even could compile Ruby 1.9. But not everyone finds that mixed compilation environment to their taste: It feels Unix, but is win32 below. So yes, it's a good thing to publish your thoughts, but consider contributing what you have managed to compile ! And thank you for speaking up, I sometimes feel like I am the only windows user around here. (And no, I am not interested in the platform discussion.) kind regards, kaspar semantics & semiotics code manufacture [URL="http://www.tua.ch/ruby"]www.tua.ch/ruby[/URL] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - [URL]http://enigmail.mozdev.org[/URL] iD8DBQFBQWtzFifl4CA0ImQRApfBAKCvw2D7DLL+Ej5dZiRCgHt4/yfxSQCfWDIR Lq3jTiawVKjqpUgkFcfSz9w= =+ivE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- [/QUOTE]

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