win32utils devel - May 2006 - has anyone compiled win32-utils under mingw?

Since the 1.8.4 One-click installer is based on VC++ 6.0 which is no
longer available, I am looking for alternative ways of building
win32-utils so as avoid segfaults. Has anyone used MingGW
successfully? When I run ruby extconf.rb from MSYS the resulting make
file assumes that I am using VC++. Do I need to build ruby under MinGW
first?

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On 5/30/06, John-Mason P. Shackelford <jpshack at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Since the 1.8.4 One-click installer is based on VC++ 6.0 which is no
> longer available, I am looking for alternative ways of building
> win32-utils so as avoid segfaults. Has anyone used MingGW
> successfully? When I run ruby extconf.rb from MSYS the resulting make
> file assumes that I am using VC++. Do I need to build ruby under MinGW
> first?
If Ruby is mswin32 (VC), you need VC to build extensions.

Building all with mingw32 will brake existing mswin32 binaries gem you
use, so be careful with that.

I have VC Toolkit 2003 bundled with platform SDK headers and libs. (14Mb 7zip).

I used it to build win32 gems for mongrel (and present no binary
compatibility issues with msvcrt).

Mail me off the list to send you a link for download. I could not
share it due non-distributing lincense of Platform SDK, but
peer-to-peer way of sharing is allowed.

Regards,

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