If you would like to be able to build FXRuby from source on Windows, and perhaps even contribute patches back to the project, you’re going to need to set up a development environment. This page describes how to set up an FXRuby development environment based on the developer kit from the RubyInstaller project.

Start by downloading and installing one of the “preview” releases of the new Ruby one-click installer that’s based on MinGW. I used the ruby-1.8.6-p383 release, but the process described here should work with any of their MinGW-based releases. Next, you’ll want to download and install their development kit. This process is described in detail on their Wiki and so I won’t rehash it here.

FXRuby is based on the FOX toolkit, and so we’re going to need to build FOX. But before we can do that, we need to download, build and install some libraries that FOX depends on for image file manipulation.

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