From: daz <dooby@...10.karoo.co.uk>
Date: 2009-02-12T10:07:50+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:22021] Re: New hash : syntax for the 1.8 series?

Berger, Daniel wrote:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Pit Capitain [mailto:pit.capitain@gmail.com] 
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 2:49 PM
>> To: ruby-core@ruby-lang.org
>> Subject: [ruby-core:22009] Re: New hash : syntax for the 1.8 series?
>>
>> 2009/2/11 Rados�aw Bu�at <radek.bulat@gmail.com>:
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>>> Even if 1.8.8 will be compatible with 1.8.7 or 1.8.6 (it can't be 
>>> compatible with both of them because 1.8.7 isn't compatible 
>>>       
>> with 1.8.6
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>> Many people have claimed this, but no one has shown examples 
>> for this yet.
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> I'd show you, but I can't build 1.8.7-p72:
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> C:\\ruby-1.8.7-p72>win32\configure
> find: =: No such file or directory
> Creating Makefile
> Creating Makefile(6) : fatal error C1085: Cannot write compiler generated file: '': Invalid argument
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> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cl' : return code '0x1'
> Stop.
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> Regards,
>
> Dan
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>   

Builds OK for me using VC++2008 Express ("free") download:
http://www.microsoft.com/express/vc/

Need to ensure that the VC environment is set correctly with:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin\vcvars32.bat

That takes care of requirement (3) in Ruby's "win32\README.win32":
  (3) Please set environment variable (({INCLUDE})), (({LIB})), (({PATH}))
    to run required commands properly from the command line.

It looks like you have "nmake" and "cl" in your path but LIB, INCLUDE unset?


Daz