From: Lionel Thiry <lthiryidontwantspam@...>
Date: 2005-06-02T08:20:23+09:00
Subject: Re: help, I can't compile an extension on windows

Daniel Berger a �crit :
> Lionel Thiry wrote:
> 
>>Hello!
>>
>>I'm on Windows2000, with ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [i386-mswin32]
>>(on-click-installer). I have latest mingw and VC++ installed (the
>>command line version) and vars are set: PATH to each bin dirs, LIB to
>>each lib dirs and INCLUDE to each include dirs.
>>
>>I've written in a file the first sample found in pragmatic programmer's
>>book: http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/html/ext_ruby.html
> 
> 
> <snip>
> 
> IIRC, your problem is caused by the word "Test".  I think it conflicts
> with Kernel.test or something strange.  Try changing it to "Foo" and
> see how it goes.  I may be off.

Replaced all occurences of Test by Foo. The error is still exactly the same.

----8<----
>make
makefile:105: *** multiple target patterns.  Stop.
----8<----

>>I launch it, I then launch make (the mingw version of make, I don't have
>>M$ make. Someone know where I can freely get it?)
> 
> 
> http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?WindowsCompiler
> 
> If you follow these instructions, you should have nmake.
Thank for the tip.

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dan
> 

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