Re: Windows build problems (1.8.2preview3)

On Nov 16, 2004, at 22:48, U.Nakamura wrote:

> Hello,
>
> In message "Windows build problems (1.8.2preview3)"
>     on Nov.17,2004 10:39:32, <[e-mail]> wrote:
> | Anyhow, I start with the usual "win32\configure.bat" followed by
> | "nmake". Everything seems to work fine at this point, although I do 
> get
> | the following warning at one point:
>
> This warning is meaningless. You can simply ignore it.

Good to know.


> | At this point, I seem to have a working ruby (and miniruby) - 
> manually
> | running "miniruby rubytest.rb" outputs "test succeeded" as it should.
> | However, if I run "nmake test", I get the following output:
> (snip)
> | And my miniruby disappears! I'm guessing ruby is actually OK, but 
> it's
> | still causing me a bit of concern. Any ideas?
>
> On my environment, "nmake test" says:
>
> ./rubytest.rb:3:in `load': No such file to load -- ./rbconfig.rb 
> (LoadError)
>         from ./rubytest.rb:3
>
> I think these are make target confusion problem.
>
> IMHO, you should run "nmake test" only after "nmake", just like
> win32/README.win32 says :)
> Of course, I'm trying to solve this problem.

Sorry if I wasn't clear, but that's what I did. Actually, I've found 
that just running "nmake" twice in a row will cause the problem, too. I 
did find a weird fix, though: if I delete one of the obj files, like 
ruby.obj, and then run nmake, it will rebuild miniruby correctly (after 
rebuilding the obj file) and works fine from then on (i.e. I can 'nmake 
test' and 'nmake install' without problems).

If you need more info, please let me know, and thanks for your help!


Nathaniel
Terralien, Inc.

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