Hello, I work with Ruby language, more specifically improving it's Windows support using open source solutions like GCC instead of Visual Studio.
This project is called RubyInstaller, and a side effect of it is increase awareness and support of developers working with OSX/Linux to provide native binaries or at least working packages (gems) for Windows. For that, I've create a project called rake-compiler, which cross-compile Ruby binaries and gems from OSX/Linux to Windows. http://github.com/luislavena/rake-compiler In the README, you can see we recommend the usage of Ubuntu or MacPorts provided MinGW versions, but on Ubuntu we had serious issues linking to MySQL and on OSX issues with 32/64bits segfaults. This means that developers with modern installations will not be able to generate these binaries for Windows users anymore. To solve that, I've been exploring the usage of mingw-w64 packages, specially those pre-compiled for Linux and Darwin. I've been playing around and achieving good results, but all that based on automated snapshots. Haven't experimented with v1.0 enough to know if is a working candidate for these requirements. Even more, wanted to know if is advised use that version or use newer snapshots as they become available. Wanted to update instructions but a more experienced detail from you guys will be highly appreciated. Thank you for your time reading this. -- Luis Lavena AREA 17 - Perfection in design is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but rather when there is nothing more to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list Mingw-w64-public@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
