Please read the README file first. :-) Wiki page must have also useful information to install Ming/Ruby. http://mingruby.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Installation_Guide Basic Installation ================== Before installing Ming/Ruby, you needs to install the following tools: * Ming 0.3beta1 * ruby 0.8.x (I guess Ming must be compiled as a static linked library, however, you may use a dynamic library ???) Quick start ----------- First, 'cd' to the directory containing the package's source code and then use 'setup.rb' to do all configure/setup/install procedure as follows. The 'setup.rb' script in this package is the installer of Ming/Ruby. Let's type this (You might needs the super user privilege) ($ su) # ruby setup.rb For MacOSX, otherwise you have to type the following: $ sudo ruby setup.rb On the other hand, if you want to install a program to your home directory, you can type following instead: $ ruby setup.rb all -- --prefix=$HOME If 'setup.rb' cannot find the directory of Ming, you can tell the directory explicitly using the following options: --with-ming-include=DIR C header files for Ming in DIR --with-ming-lib=DIR object code libraries for Ming in DIR --with-ming-dir=PREFIX use PREFIX as PREFIX/include ... C header files for Ming PREFIX/lib ... object code libraries for Ming Note that you have to add '--' symbols into the arguments because of some technical reasons, as like, $ ruby setup.rb -- --with-ming-dir=/usr/local For 'libpng', 'libungif', and 'libz', the same features are provided. Detailed Installation Process ============================= Please refer to the original page. http://www.loveruby.net/en/man/setup/ The following option lists for 'setup.rb' is quoted from the original documents. Global Options -------------- "Global Option" is a command line option which you can use for all tasks. You must give a global option before any task name. -q,--quiet suppress message outputs --verbose output messages verbosely (default) -h,--help prints help and quit -v,--version prints version and quit --copyright prints copyright and quit Tasks ----- These are acceptable tasks: all Invokes `config', `setup', then `install'. Task options for all is same with config. config Checks and saves configurations. show Prints current configurations. setup Compiles ruby extentions. install Installs files. clean Removes created files. distclean Removes all created files. Task Options for CONFIG/ALL --------------------------- --prefix=PATH a prefix of the installing directory path --stdruby=PATH the directory for standard ruby libraries --siterubycommon=PATH the directory for version-independent non-standard ruby libraries --siteruby=PATH the directory for non-standard ruby libraries --bindir=PATH the directory for commands --rbdir=PATH the directory for ruby scripts --sodir=PATH the directory for ruby extentions --datadir=PATH the directory for shared data --rubypath=PATH path to set to #! line --rubyprog=PATH the ruby program using for installation --makeprog=NAME the make program to compile ruby extentions --without-ext forces to setup.rb never to compile/install ruby extentions. --rbconfig=PATH your rbconfig.rb to load You can view default values of these options by typing $ ruby setup.rb --help If there's the directory named "packages", You can also use these options: --with=NAME,NAME,NAME... Package names which you want to install. --without=NAME,NAME,NAME... Package names which you do not want to install. [NOTE] You can pass options for extconf.rb like this: ruby setup.rb config -- --with-tklib=/usr/lib/libtk-ja.so.8.0 Task Options for INSTALL ------------------------ --no-harm prints what to do and done nothing really. --prefix=PATH The prefix of the installing directory path. This option may help binary package maintainers. A default value is an empty string.