Rubyinstaller users - Dec 2006 - Ruby interpreter upgrade within an existing OCI installation?

Can a ruby interpreter ( ../bin/ruby.exe ) built with mingw32 be used [
at_all | safely ] to replace the
vc6 (msmin32) one shipped with OCI?

Would anything else have to be changed as well, or is it simply not
feasable?

Background is that the version of ruby-1.8.5 used in the
ruby185-21.exerelease of OCI has (through
no fault of the OCI maintainers) a bug in require that causes a lot of
warning messages when
invoking libraries such as FXruby. I can''t rebuild ruby with msvc6, as
that
compiler does not
seem to be available for download anywhere. I have built ruby-1.8.5-p2 with
mingw, and it
runs in an Msys shell, but is the resulting ruby.exe
''portable'' to other
windows environments?

Thanks -

David
Leicester, UK
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