From: Alexey Verkhovsky <alex@...>
Date: 2004-10-05T06:27:58+09:00
Subject: [Ruby Forum] Problem with rubygems installation in Cygwin

Unanswered question from Ruby Forum
(http://ruby-forum.org/bb/viewtopic.php?t=87):


I am running a Windows XP box and am trying to get started with Ruby.
I've seen some of the code samples, and I want to get in on the action.
Unfortunately, some of my peripheral knowledge (er.. lack thereof) is
getting in the way. 

I am on a Windows XP box running cygwin 

CYGWIN_NT-5.1 astrocity 1.5.11(0.116/4/2) 2004-09-04 23:17 i686 unknown
unknown Cygwin 

I've downloaded the rubygems-0.8.1 archive. Then... 

Code:
$ ruby install.rb 

As of RubyGems 0.8.0, library stubs are no longer needed. 
Searching $LOAD_PATH for stubs to optionally delete (may take a
while)... 
...done. 
No library stubs found. 

/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-cygwin/digest/md5.so: dlopen, Win32 error 126 -
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-cygwin 
/digest/md5.so (LoadError) 
        from
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb:5:in `require' 
        from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/package.rb:10 
        from
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb:5:in
`require__' 
        from
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb:5:in `require' 
        from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/builder.rb:1 
        from
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb:5:in
`require__' 
        from
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb:5:in `require' 
        from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:58:in `manage_gems'
        from install.rb:142:in `install_rb' 
        from install.rb:148

but... 

Code:

$ ls -la /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-cygwin/digest/md5.so 
-rwxr-x---+   1 Jim      Users        6144 Dec 25  2003
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-cygwin/digest/md5.so 


So, is my problem something like
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-02/msg00828.html (a static vs.
dynamic library issue) or something else? 

Any help is much appreciated.