Problem on compiling ruby in windows

[Shin guey Wong]

Hi,

I am using the ruby one click installer all the while. Recently, I tried
to compile the latest ruby 1.8.6-p110 and I found it is quite painful to
compile it in windows.

I am able to compile it with VS2003. I can compile the ruby.exe and
rubyw.exe and some standard library without any problem.

After compile the ruby.exe, I tried it and it run quite well but when I
tried to install rubygems, it start complaining zlib not install. So, I
recheck the compile log and found that there are still a lot of ruby
extension which is not able to compile in windows because of missing of
some library/development header, for eg openssl, zlib, readline, curse,
nbm, iconv, pty, tk, syslog..etc .
This is no problem for linux coz linux can download all the dev file
easily like they can download zlib-dev with linux. However, doing this
in windows is hard.

For zlib, luckily I can found the source code and compile it
successfully. After that, I just install rubygems without any problem.
After install rubygems, I fire up IRB and type 'require
'irb/completion''. It complain again no readline ext found... I had
to start finding any readline source/library for windows available on
net. I successful to found it with GNUWin but still not able to compile
readline binding for ruby....I read the log file, it will check for
ncurse.lib, termcap.lib, curse.lib, edit/readline.h...where do I get all
this file????

So, can anyone tell me how to compile readline for ruby in windows?
and so for openssl, curse, iconv, tk.....

 

[Shin guey Wong]

So, can anyone tell me how to compile readline for ruby in windows?
and so for openssl, curse, iconv, tk.....

I just successful compile openssl base on the instruction below:
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bi...talk/120695?120482-121114+split-mode-vertical

I use the same technique to compile the tk binding. I can compile it but
I get the following warning message:

*****************************************************************************
**
** PTHREAD SUPPORT MODE WARNING:
**
** Ruby is compiled with --enable-pthread, but your Tcl/Tk library
** seems to be compiled without pthread support. Although you can
** create the tcltklib library, this combination may cause errors
** (e.g. hangs or segmentation faults). If you have no reason to
** keep the current pthread support status, we recommend you
reconfigure
** and recompile the libraries so that both or neither support
pthreads.
**
** If you want change the status of pthread support, please recompile
** Ruby without "--enable-pthread" configure option or recompile
Tcl/Tk
** with "--enable-threads" configure option (if your Tcl/Tk is later
** than or equal to Tcl/Tk 8.1).
**
*****************************************************************************

So, how do I configure with "--enable-threads" ? changing the Makefile?
I never compile any ruby source myself.

My previous post question, I still no idea on how to compile readline
for ruby....

 

[Shin guey Wong]

So, how do I configure with "--enable-threads" ? changing the Makefile?
I never compile any ruby source myself.

My previous post question, I still no idea on how to compile readline
for ruby....

Just finish compile the curse standard library with the lib from:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=30480

I had tried to compile it with pdcurse from gnuwin32 but it fails to
compile.

 

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

Hi,

I am using the ruby one click installer all the while. Recently, I tried
to compile the latest ruby 1.8.6-p110 and I found it is quite painful to
compile it in windows.

I am able to compile it with VS2003. I can compile the ruby.exe and
rubyw.exe and some standard library without any problem.

After compile the ruby.exe, I tried it and it run quite well but when I
tried to install rubygems, it start complaining zlib not install. So, I
recheck the compile log and found that there are still a lot of ruby
extension which is not able to compile in windows because of missing of
some library/development header, for eg openssl, zlib, readline, curse,
nbm, iconv, pty, tk, syslog..etc .
This is no problem for linux coz linux can download all the dev file
easily like they can download zlib-dev with linux. However, doing this
in windows is hard.

For zlib, luckily I can found the source code and compile it
successfully. After that, I just install rubygems without any problem.
After install rubygems, I fire up IRB and type 'require
'irb/completion''. It complain again no readline ext found... I had
to start finding any readline source/library for windows available on
net. I successful to found it with GNUWin but still not able to compile
readline binding for ruby....I read the log file, it will check for
ncurse.lib, termcap.lib, curse.lib, edit/readline.h...where do I get all
this file????

So, can anyone tell me how to compile readline for ruby in windows?
and so for openssl, curse, iconv, tk.....

You might want to look at the RubyForge details for the Windows
One-Click Installer. Since it's an open-source project, I'm guessing all
the scripts, Vulcan nerve pinches, etc., necessary to build the
One-Click Installer are there in the SCM repository. There may actually
be a forum there too. Then again, Curt might just update the One-Click
and Instant Rails with the latest Ruby source soon too.

 

[Curt (Work) Hibbs]

You might want to look at the RubyForge details for the Windows
One-Click Installer. Since it's an open-source project, I'm guessing all
the scripts, Vulcan nerve pinches, etc., necessary to build the
One-Click Installer are there in the SCM repository. There may actually
be a forum there too. Then again, Curt might just update the One-Click
and Instant Rails with the latest Ruby source soon too.

I am working on an One-Click Ruby Installer update (currently stuck on
a problem with the ODBC bindings). I hope I can have something out
fairly soon (actually, I need to because I'm really short on available
time).

Curt