Comments on: The Totally Bullshit Ruby Extension Experience on Windows http://apocryph.org/2007/06/16/totally_bullshit_ruby_extension_experience_windows/ Notes to my future self Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:59:07 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: anelson http://apocryph.org/2007/06/16/totally_bullshit_ruby_extension_experience_windows/comment-page-1/#comment-1027 anelson Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:20:17 +0000 http://apocryph.org/?p=401#comment-1027 What's a real world solution without swears? Fuck that! What’s a real world solution without swears? Fuck that!

]]> By: Karl R. http://apocryph.org/2007/06/16/totally_bullshit_ruby_extension_experience_windows/comment-page-1/#comment-1026 Karl R. Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:16:48 +0000 http://apocryph.org/?p=401#comment-1026 awesome. great real world solution with swears. thanks, you are the only guy who solved my fucking problem. Fuckin A. (seriously, thanks). fuck. awesome. great real world solution with swears. thanks, you are the only guy who solved my fucking problem. Fuckin A. (seriously, thanks). fuck.

]]> By: brandon http://apocryph.org/2007/06/16/totally_bullshit_ruby_extension_experience_windows/comment-page-1/#comment-837 brandon Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:32:00 +0000 http://apocryph.org/?p=401#comment-837 This isn't still an issue is it? I recently built 1.9.1 on windows with VCExpress 2008. wasn't too difficult as I recall. I ran the configure.bat file in [src]/win32 which generated config.h and the Makefile. Then it was just nmake, nmake test, nmake install. A few extensions got skipped, but I'm going back and fixing them now (zlib, iconv) This isn’t still an issue is it? I recently built 1.9.1 on windows with VCExpress 2008. wasn’t too difficult as I recall. I ran the configure.bat file in [src]/win32 which generated config.h and the Makefile. Then it was just nmake, nmake test, nmake install. A few extensions got skipped, but I’m going back and fixing them now (zlib, iconv)

]]> By: anelson http://apocryph.org/2007/06/16/totally_bullshit_ruby_extension_experience_windows/comment-page-1/#comment-741 anelson Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:12:09 +0000 http://apocryph.org/?p=401#comment-741 Mingw/cygwin are your only options most of the time on Windows, but neither would work for me because I need a 21st century debugger like Visual Studio's. GDB is not the same, no matter what the graybeards say. Since Ruby 1.9 on Windows has gone the mingw route, it looks like we'll never get relief. Mingw/cygwin are your only options most of the time on Windows, but neither would work for me because I need a 21st century debugger like Visual Studio’s. GDB is not the same, no matter what the graybeards say. Since Ruby 1.9 on Windows has gone the mingw route, it looks like we’ll never get relief.

]]> By: roger rubygem rdocs http://apocryph.org/2007/06/16/totally_bullshit_ruby_extension_experience_windows/comment-page-1/#comment-740 roger rubygem rdocs Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:12:23 +0000 http://apocryph.org/?p=401#comment-740 I would definitely suggest considering mingw or cygwin. Since we windows users have been abandoned we need something closer to unix-y :) http://programming-gone-awry.blogspot.com/2009/05/how-to-setup-complete-mingw-msys-build.html Re: performance: you could try 1.9 I suppose http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/ GL to all us windows users out there. =r I would definitely suggest considering mingw or cygwin. Since we windows users have been abandoned we need something closer to unix-y :)
http://programming-gone-awry.blogspot.com/2009/05/how-to-setup-complete-mingw-msys-build.html
Re: performance: you could try 1.9 I suppose http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/
GL to all us windows users out there.
=r

]]> By: anelson http://apocryph.org/2007/06/16/totally_bullshit_ruby_extension_experience_windows/comment-page-1/#comment-603 anelson Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:14:13 +0000 http://apocryph.org/?p=401#comment-603 I have contributed it inasmuch as the code is available on my SVN repository. I can't contribute it in to the Ruby code because 1.8.6 is built with the ancient Visual C++ 6.0, and 1.9 is build with mingw, neither of which I support. I have contributed it inasmuch as the code is available on my SVN repository. I can’t contribute it in to the Ruby code because 1.8.6 is built with the ancient Visual C++ 6.0, and 1.9 is build with mingw, neither of which I support.

]]> By: Matthew Ratzloff http://apocryph.org/2007/06/16/totally_bullshit_ruby_extension_experience_windows/comment-page-1/#comment-599 Matthew Ratzloff Sun, 07 Jun 2009 02:07:47 +0000 http://apocryph.org/?p=401#comment-599 This is an ancient post, but here's a thought: why not contribute your work back? I'm sure the other Windows users would appreciate it. This is an ancient post, but here’s a thought: why not contribute your work back? I’m sure the other Windows users would appreciate it.

]]> By: Jon Thoroddsen http://apocryph.org/2007/06/16/totally_bullshit_ruby_extension_experience_windows/comment-page-1/#comment-36 Jon Thoroddsen Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:39:39 +0000 http://apocryph.org/?p=401#comment-36 <strong>What a spot on rant. I’m</strong> What a spot on rant. I'm trying to build the ibm db2 adaptor and luckily found this post. It was very helpful :-) What a spot on rant. I’m

What a spot on rant. I’m trying to build the ibm db2 adaptor and luckily found this post. It was very helpful :-)

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