Compile on windows

Ruby
1

Hello all,

I’m running Ruby on windows xp. I made changes to the keywords file and
would like to recompile the Ruby source to see my changes. How do I
recompile Ruby source on windows?

Thanks in advance

2

You could download and tweak the source for the mingw download. I think
:slight_smile:

http://rubyinstaller.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Mingw

Those talk about how to compile it with mingw.
With MSVC I’m not sure how :slight_smile:

Good luck.

-R

Ronn Ross wrote:

Hello all,

I’m running Ruby on windows xp. I made changes to the keywords file and
would like to recompile the Ruby source to see my changes. How do I
recompile Ruby source on windows?

Thanks in advance

3

Hi,

At Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:58:54 +0900,
Ronn Ross wrote in [ruby-talk:309582]:

I’m running Ruby on windows xp. I made changes to the keywords file and
would like to recompile the Ruby source to see my changes. How do I
recompile Ruby source on windows?

  1. install cygwin including necessary packages: autoconf,
    binutils, bison, gcc, gcc-mingw, gperf, make and
    mingw-runtime,

  2. make build directory under the source directory,
    chdir ruby/src/
    mkdir i386-mingw32
    chdir i386-mingw32

  3. run configure with CC=‘gcc -mno-cygwin’,
    …/configure CC=‘gcc -mno-cygwin’

  4. compile and install
    make all install DESTDIR=x:/path/to/install

Note that you need gperf command because you changed keywords.