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Mauricio checked in some Rakefiles for cross-compiling to win32, so I’ve got some win32 gems for Hpricot and the (FF)Sandbox. The majority of you can now:

 gem install hpricot --source code.whytheluckystiff.net
 gem install sandbox --source code.whytheluckystiff.net

THE SANDBOX ONE IS COMPILED FOR 1.8.4 SO IT HAS TOTALLY GOT HOLES. And yet, fun can still be had I’m sure.

As for cross-compiling, I’m using mingw on FreeBSD. Here’s how:

 cd /usr/ports/devel/mingw32-gcc
 sudo make install
 cd ~/sand
 wget http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/binaries/mingw/1.8/ruby-1.8.4-i386-mingw32.tar.gz
 mv usr/local RUBY-1_8_4-MINGW32
 rm -rf usr
 cd ~/dev
 svn co https://code.whytheluckystiff.net/svn/sandbox/trunk sandbox
 cd sandbox
 export MINGW32_RUBY=/home/why/sand/RUBY-1_8_4-MINGW32
 export MINGW32_PREFIX=mingw32
 rake rubygems_win32

I mean that’s alot better than putting together a VM and trying to track down a decent free Microsoft compiler. A couple weeks ago, I spent six hours on it and made no progress.