Building off a more recent 1.8.6 source code base?

Folk,

I'm using the current one-click installer on Windows XP, and
ruby -v  
claims
to be patch-level -p0. This version has totally broken
thread  
synchronisation
primitives, and that leaves me dead in the water. Sylvain
Joyeux told me
in ruby-talk that p36 and p110 are much better, so...

I can either build a current Ruby from source, or build the
whole one- 
click
installer from source. I have MSVC and I'm quite familiar
with  
building on
Windows...

What's the ramp-up time to learn to build the one-click
installer  
from source?

How hard is it likely to be to adapt the build process to
the current  
Ruby source
code for 1.8.6? (Easy, I expect).

What else do I need installed - are you using WiX or
something else?

Clifford Heath
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Damn, I have VS2003... don't know if I can lay hands on VC++
6.
Did MS make it available freely? However what you say means
I
don't have the option of rebuilding just Ruby, because I
need to
work with existing extensions.

It might be time soon to update to a more recent version and
just
break compatibility with older extensions... I guess that's
a big
change though.

Otherwise, any chance you could ship me a version without
ODBC
working? I need to run RMagick and Gtk on about 5 target
machines,
so it wouldn't get wide distribution.

Clifford Heath.

On 28/09/2007, at 11:46 AM, Curt Hibbs wrote:
> I am currently working on Release 26 which uses Ruby
p110. I could  
> use some help, as my available time is limited, if you
wanted to  
> pitch in. I'm actually pretty close to finished except
that I'm  
> having trouble getting the Ruby ODBC to compile.
>
> If you checkout the installer from RubyForge
(instructions are  
> here: http://rubyfor
ge.org/scm/?group_id=167), the complete build  
> instructions are in the ReadMe.html file (you want to
check out  
> from "/trunk/installer-win2"), but you have
to use either VC++ 6.0  
> SP5 or MinGW (newer versions of VC++ have binary
compatibility  
> problems).
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