Issue #21570 has been reported by NuriYuri (Youri Nouri). ---------------------------------------- Misc #21570: Windows: Static compilation struggles https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/21570 * Author: NuriYuri (Youri Nouri) * Status: Open ---------------------------------------- Hi, I'm trying to make static Ruby binaries and I've discovered several issues in the **Windows** building process: 1. The `GNUMakefile` is trying to generate a ruby.exp file. It uses dllwrap leading to a failure since this is deprecated and exits with non-zero. (The ruby.exp file looks unnecessary for the compilation process). 2. The generation of encoding (src/enc) files seem to be missing RUBY_EXPORT define and -lonig 3. The openssl extconf.h is missing RUBY_EXPORT define. 4. All the bundled gems are missing RUBY_EXPORT define and -lgmp Also, the makefile is making some mess with the static and shared library file. It forces me to add `lib=arc` in `rbinstall.rb` so make install can work. Here's the commands I ran for that result: - `ridk enable ucrt64` - `sh ./src/autogen.sh` - `cd build` - `sh ../src/configure -C --disable-install-doc --disable-dln -disable-install-rdoc --disable-install-capi --with-static-linked-ext --disable-shared --disable-yjit --disable-rjit --enable-load-relative --with-parser=parse.y --prefix=C:/Projet/ruby/build/install` - `make` - `make install` I used the Ruby 3.4.5 archive from https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads and mostly followed this doc https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/master/doc/windows.md#building-ruby-using-... by simply adding the static spices. In the end I was able to generate the .a files and a ruby.exe file but I had to do a ton of manual changes to achieve this result ^^. Note: I have tried to use gcc or ldd to get the .exp file but they only make an empty .def file. -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/