From: timsuth@... (Tim Sutherland)
Date: 2004-11-18T08:58:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8.2-14_rc9 Win32Api Problem

Zach Dennis wrote:
>
> I'm running the One click installer, Ruby 1.8.2-14_rc9 on my Win2K box,
> and I decided to do somethings with the Win32Api, but when I load
> it I get:
>
> LoadError: 127: The specified procedure could not be found.   -
> Init_Win32Api
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-mswin32/Win32Api.so
>          from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-mswin32/Win32Api.so
>         from
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb:5:in `require'
>
> Anyone else having this issue? Thanks,

You need to do
  require 'Win32API'
not
  require 'Win32Api'

When you use the wrong case, Ruby still finds the library because you're
using a case-insensitive filesystem, but then uses the wrong Init_Foo
function.