# What is the difference between ruby.exe and miniruby.exe?

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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [July 11, 2007, 12:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-is-the-difference-between-ruby-exe-and-miniruby-exe/109083 "2007-07-11T12:37:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![yusufcelik](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/ba9def/32.png) [@yusufcelik](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/yusufcelik)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 12:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-is-the-difference-between-ruby-exe-and-miniruby-exe/109083/1 "2007-07-11T12:37:42Z")

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Hi,  
I am using on WinXP  
Only the difference I see is DLL is statically linked to miniruby.  
No idea if there is another one?

Thanks in advance  
yc

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**Author:** ![yusufcelik](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/ba9def/32.png) [@yusufcelik](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/yusufcelik)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 8:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-is-the-difference-between-ruby-exe-and-miniruby-exe/109083/2 "2007-07-12T08:54:21Z")

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Nobody knows the answer?  
Yusuf C. wrote:

> Hi,  
> I am using on WinXP  
> Only the difference I see is DLL is statically linked to miniruby.  
> No idea if there is another one?
> 
> Thanks in advance  
> yc

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**Author:** ![yusufcelik](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/ba9def/32.png) [@yusufcelik](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/yusufcelik)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 10:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-is-the-difference-between-ruby-exe-and-miniruby-exe/109083/3 "2007-07-12T10:22:39Z")

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[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.general/68084](http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.general/68084)

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**Author:** ![yusufcelik](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/ba9def/32.png) [@yusufcelik](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/yusufcelik)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 3:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-is-the-difference-between-ruby-exe-and-miniruby-exe/109083/4 "2007-07-20T03:55:30Z")

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miniruby is just a program which is used to bootstrap compiling and  
installing ruby.

On 7/11/07, Yusuf C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

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