Add pre-built Windows version using Ruby 1.9

Date: 2010-07-12 06:54
Sender: Omer Bar-or

In my ideal world, someone hands me a script that I run on a
Windows machine and a precompiled gem pops out.

Wishes aside, at least having someone walk me through the process
of compiling a gem for Windows would be great. I do all my development
on Linux, so working in Windows is slow and painful.

I'll look into rake compiler when I get a chance. Thanks!

Date: 2010-07-01 22:14
Sender: Jarmo Pertman

What kind of help do you have in mind? I tried a little to use
rake-compiler, but pretty much failed.

I've managed to build it for ruby 1.9.1 also with mingw, but
it would be much nicer if it would work as some other gems like
ruby-sqlite3, nokogiri and so on, which have windows gems
pre-compiled.

You can see more about http://github.com/luislavena/rake-compiler
and maybe even do some things with it.

Jarmo

Date: 2010-05-25 15:47
Sender: Omer Bar-or

You can get a pre-built Windows version of RMagick 2.13.0 here:
http://github.com/tribalvibes/rmagick

And many people have found success installing the RMagick gem
using mingw, e.g., http://www.waydotnet.com/blog/2010/02/rmagick-
on-ruby-1-9-1-i386-mingw32-work-d/

But, as a Windows neophyte, I still don't have any insight as
to how to create pre-built Windows versions in a systematic way
(so that it can be part of our release process).

Any help would be appreciated.

Date: 2010-05-23 21:40
Sender: Jarmo Pertman

no news with this?