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@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ http://www.ruby-lang.org/ There is a mailing list to talk about Ruby. To subscribe this list, please send the following phrase - subscribe YourFirstName YourFamilyName + subscribe YourFirstName YourFamilyName e.g. subscribe Joseph Smith @@ -68,6 +68,9 @@ in the mail body (not subject) to the address <mailto:ruby-talk-ctl@ruby-lang.or This is what you need to do to compile and install Ruby: +0. If you want to use Microsoft Visual C++ to compile ruby, + read win32/README.win32 instead of this document. + 1. If +./configure+ does not exist or is older than configure.in, run autoconf to (re)generate configure. @@ -79,8 +82,8 @@ This is what you need to do to compile and install Ruby: 3. Edit +defines.h+ if you need. Usually this step will not be needed. -4. Remove comment mark(<tt>#</tt>) before the module names from +ext/Setup+ (or - add module names if not present), if you want to link modules +4. Remove comment mark(<tt>#</tt>) before the module names from +ext/Setup+ + (or add module names if not present), if you want to link modules statically. If you don't want to compile non static extension modules @@ -88,6 +91,8 @@ This is what you need to do to compile and install Ruby: remove comment mark from the line "<tt>#option nodynamic</tt>" in +ext/Setup+. + Usually this step will not be needed. + 5. Run +make+. 6. Optionally, run '<tt>make check</tt>' to check whether the compiled Ruby |