I don't have an opinion about this but I think this discussion should be carried/copied to RJB's mailing list.
alex On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Roger Pack <[email protected]> wrote: > Because mingw's version of GCC only "likes" paths with '/' 's building > of buildr "from source" in windows with mingw fails (well, in reality > rjb fails). > > > c:/ruby/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb > checking for jni.h... *** extconf.rb failed *** > Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of > necessary libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more > details. You may need configuration options. > > > Gem files will remain installed in > c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rjb-1.1.6 for inspection. > Results logged to > c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rjb-1.1.6/ext/gem_make.out > > possible fixes: > I could commit a patch for extconf.rb > or > the distributor could use the > http://github.com/luislavena/rake-compiler/tree/master rake compiler > to generate binaries for the several platforms [this one is 1.9.1 on > doze]. > Thanks! > -r >
