From: Martin Duerst <duerst@...>
Date: 2007-11-08T11:48:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Should "Iconv" work with the actual Ruby 1.9 snapshots?

I have been using iconv with up-to-date builds of 1.9 on a regular
basis, without problems. I'm using Cygwin.

Regards,   Martin.

At 04:31 07/11/08, Wolfgang N〓dasi-Donner wrote:
>Good Evening!
>
>I have a question, because I have problems to use "Iconv" on my private Ruby 1.9 builds on Windows, which I make using MSYS/MinGW. Independently where I install "Iconv", I get always the following message...
>
>C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\wolfgang>irb19
>irb(main):001:0> require "iconv"
>LoadError: no such file to load -- iconv
>         from (irb):1:in `require'
>         from (irb):1
>         from C:/ruby19/lib/ruby/1.9/irb.rb:150:in `block (2 levels) in eval_input'
>         from C:/ruby19/lib/ruby/1.9/irb.rb:260:in `signal_status'
>         from C:/ruby19/lib/ruby/1.9/irb.rb:147:in `block in eval_input'
>         from C:/ruby19/lib/ruby/1.9/irb.rb:146:in `eval_input'
>         from C:/ruby19/lib/ruby/1.9/irb.rb:70:in `block in start'
>         from C:/ruby19/lib/ruby/1.9/irb.rb:69:in `catch'
>         from C:/ruby19/lib/ruby/1.9/irb.rb:69:in `start'
>         from C:/ruby19/bin/irb19.bat:21:in `<main>'
>irb(main):002:0> exit
>
>...which tells me in principle, that the Ruby interface to "Iconv" is not build.
>
>Before I go further to search for a reason, I would like to ask you, if it is in principle already there and should work.
>
>Wolfgang Nテ。dasi-Donner
>


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