Problems building Ruby from source on Windows
 

Hi all,

Windows XP Pro

C:\ruby>cl
Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 13.10.3077 for
80x86

I'm having trouble building Ruby from source on my Windows box. I've
tried the latest stable snapshot (Sept. 10, 2005) and 1.8.3p1.

In the case of 1.8.3p1, cl.exe hangs indefinitely trying to build
parse.c. In the case of the snapshot, it dies with this error during
nmake:

cl -nologo -MD -Zi -O2b2xg- -G6 -DRUBY_EXPORT -I. -I.
-I./missing -c -Tcdmyext.c
dmyext.c
lib -nologo -machine:x86 -out:msvcr71-ruby18-static.lib
array.obj bignum.obj class.obj compar.obj dir.obj dln.obj
enum.obj error.obj eval.obj file.obj gc.obj hash.obj inits.obj
io.obj marshal.obj math.obj numeric.obj object.obj pack.obj
parse.obj process.obj prec.obj random.obj range.obj re.obj
regex.obj ruby.obj signal.obj sprintf.obj st.obj string.obj
struct.obj time.obj util.obj variable.obj version.obj acosh.obj
crypt.obj erf.obj win32.obj dmyext.obj
'lib' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'lib' : return code '0x1'

As per the instructions, I ran win32\configure.bat, then nmake. I also
tried tweaking the prefix, but that made no difference.

What am I doing wrong?

Regards,

Dan

Re: Problems building Ruby from source on Windows
 

Not sure about the hanging, but regarding the "lib" error, this points
to a likely problem in your console environment and/or compiler
installation.
lib.exe is a microsoft utility for creating static/dynamic libraries,
which should be located in the same directory where cl.exe is located.
When compiling, your PATH variable should be set to point to that
directory.
With the microsoft compiler, you usually get a .bat file called
vcvars32.bat or similar that you can run in a windows console so that
all the appropiate paths are set for compiling (usually, the microsoft
compiler does not add its append its path to the global PATH
environment settings during installation).

Re: Problems building Ruby from source on Windows
 

gga wrote:
> Not sure about the hanging, but regarding the "lib" error, this points
> to a likely problem in your console environment and/or compiler
> installation.
> lib.exe is a microsoft utility for creating static/dynamic libraries,
> which should be located in the same directory where cl.exe is located.
> When compiling, your PATH variable should be set to point to that
> directory.
> With the microsoft compiler, you usually get a .bat file called
> vcvars32.bat or similar that you can run in a windows console so that
> all the appropiate paths are set for compiling (usually, the microsoft
> compiler does not add its append its path to the global PATH
> environment settings during installation).

Thanks, that was it. I ran setenv.bat, but for some odd reason it has
the lib.exe (and some other files) under bin/win64, and they're only
added to the path if I run it as "setenv /XP64". I dunno what makes
lib.exe 64 bit specific.

I think I copied this files up one level on my other system and forgot
to do that on this one.

Thanks.

Dan