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By: Stephan Kämper
 RE: Binary files for Win32 - biult with MinGW [ reply ]
2004-02-06 21:35
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So I'm answering myself...
If you do have a MS VC comnpiler on your Windows machine you might be off best using this and following the instructions coming with ruby-serialport.
If you don't you might like to try the following (extracted from the news group thread started on Feb, 3rd, 200 with subject "ruby-serialport on Win32")
For more detailed information on this see comp.langruby or [ruby-talk:91435] and following (especially [ruby-talk:91616]) on either of these sites:
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/ruby/ruby-talk/index.shtml
http://www.ruby-talk.org
The approach using MinGW + the patch given in [ruby-talk:91616] worked for me, but your mileage may vary.
- I installed the whole bunch of MinGW stuff: MinGW, MSYS, and the developer kit.
- Then I made a MinGW version if Ruby unsing the MinGW/MSYS environment.
- After that I applied the abovementioned patch to the ruby-serialport package
- ... and built that, too. Note that the MinGW version of Ruby seems
to be necessary to get the result of "ruby extconf.rb" right.
I didn't try it another way though.
- Then I copied the brand new serialport.so into the library path of the
One-Click-Windows-Installer.
- That was it. Now the ruby installation can talk to serial devices.
Happy rubying!
Stephan
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