# Re: ruby and ksh

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-ruby-and-ksh/68086>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [September 9, 2006, 12:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-ruby-and-ksh/68086 "2006-09-09T00:47:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![phrogz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/2acd7d/32.png) [@phrogz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/phrogz)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 12:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-ruby-and-ksh/68086/1 "2006-09-09T00:47:17Z")

</div>

From: ClassRubyExceptionHandline [[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)]

> Hi All… I have just downloaded the ruby-1.8.5-i386-mswin32.zip file  
> with the hope that I can use ruby under the Interix 2.2 ksh shell  
> implementation.

I have little of value to add, except that this page:  
[http://www.garbagecollect.jp/ruby/mswin32/en/documents/mswin32.html](http://www.garbagecollect.jp/ruby/mswin32/en/documents/mswin32.html)  
implies that mswin32 is not the right build of Ruby you want for  
Interix, but rather an interix-specific build.

The page is 3 years old, and I’d never heard of interix before reading  
your post, so I can’t really say where you might get such a precompiled  
beast. I only point it out because the existence of such a build in the  
past makes me think there are good reasons for not wanting|being able to  
use a mswin32 build under interix.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![phrogz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/2acd7d/32.png) [@phrogz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/phrogz)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 2:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-ruby-and-ksh/68086/2 "2006-09-09T02:55:29Z")

</div>

Gavin K. wrote:

> The page is 3 years old, and I’d never heard of interix before reading  
> your post, so I can’t really say where you might get such a precompiled  
> beast. I only point it out because the existence of such a build in the  
> past makes me think there are good reasons for not wanting|being able to  
> use a mswin32 build under interix.

Ok, so I went here  
[http://www.garbagecollect.jp/ruby/mswin32/en/download/release.html](http://www.garbagecollect.jp/ruby/mswin32/en/download/release.html)  
and tried to find the build for Interix, but I couldn’t. I don’t mind  
going to cygwin if I have to as long as I can find the right binaries  
and instructions on how to use the stuff. I’m a Unix guy  
professionally so I want to see if I can make Ruby work on a Windows  
box with a Unix/posix implementation behind it.