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Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 00:50:00 +0100
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp AT familiehaase DOT de>
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To: "Gerrit P. Haase @ cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
CC: "Albert L. Wagner" <alwagner AT uark DOT edu>,
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Subject: Re: Compiling Berkeley db for Ruby under Cygwin
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Hallo Albert,

> Am 2002-01-03 um 18:40 schriebst du:

>> Even as a Linux user, I probably stay as confused about compiling
>> under cygwin as some windows users. I cannot figure out just
>> where the linker is looking to find cygwin-ruby16.

> 1. Use the correct linker flag `-L/path/to/librubys.a/' and look
>    if there is a lib named libcygwin-ruby16.a, isn't the name of
>    the import lib librubys.a or was it changed since 1.6.5 and 1.6.6?

Ah, no, librubys.a is the static lib, the importlib is:
/usr/local/lib/libcygwin-ruby16.a in my build.

> 2. use `my' ruby-1.6.5 package which is available at this URI:
>    http://familiehaase.de/cywgin/ruby/ and installs the lib and
>    headers and dll in `cygwin-usual' places (/usr/local/lib/ruby/...,
>    /usr/local/bin)
> 3. Build ruby yourself:
>    ./configure --enable-shared
>    make
>    make test
>    make install

Gerrit
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