I tried following the README file in Ruby 1.9.1 but I can’t compile it using MinGW in Windows. Can you help me with this?
Thanks.
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I tried following the README file in Ruby 1.9.1 but I can’t compile it using MinGW in Windows. Can you help me with this?
Thanks.
Compiling it in windows is TOO complex because you have a lot of dependencies you need to think of (openssl, zlib, readline, etc).
One thing that helped me is by downloading rubyinstaller (http://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller). It’s not that perfect yet but you can tweak some of the configuration files to work for you (i.e. getting the latest build, modifying the versions, etc).
But then since compiling it is just the beginning of my problems (gems that needs native dependencies like rmagick), I ended up using Ubuntu instead.