This repo creates self-contained Windows Ruby master builds (mingw, ucrt and mswin), and saves them to the one release in the repo. This is done three times a day.

The links for the build 7z files are:

mingw: https://github.com/MSP-Greg/ruby-loco/releases/download/ruby-master/ruby-mingw.7z

ucrt: https://github.com/MSP-Greg/ruby-loco/releases/download/ruby-master/ruby-ucrt.7z

mswin: https://github.com/MSP-Greg/ruby-loco/releases/download/ruby-master/ruby-mswin.7z

Note that if any of the Ruby test suites fail, the build will not be uploaded. Hence, the links will provide the most recent build that passed.

The builds can be used in GitHub Actions CI by using the ruby/setup-ruby action or the ruby/setup-ruby-pkgs action, which also helps with cross-platform package installation.

The repo can be used to build Ruby locally. See (WIP) Local Use.

• Patches allow the test suites to run from the install folder, as opposed to the build folder. 'make' is not used to run any tests.

• A simple CLI test is run on all bin files to verify they work. Both Windows & Bash shells are checked.

I started working with building and testing MSYS2/MinGW Ruby in 2016, and what could be considered the start of ruby-loco happened in early 2017.

At first, its main purpose was to run full testing on MinGW master builds, as at the time, that was not done in ruby/ruby. The code was updated to create a full binary build and moved to AppVeyor.

Today, mingw, ucrt and mswin builds are done, and are available for use with GitHUb Actions.