Okay well. I'm begining to experiment with the ruby programming language. Interesting though, the mySQL library needs to be made(bunch of files all packed into mysql.o), is there any way to replicate this in windows? Or do I need to grab the file from elsewhere?

And finally, why does an include file need to be 'made' in the first place? Shouldn't a pre-compiled version be the same for all distributions considering this is not a binary?

(hoping somone understands him)