From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2005-06-06T23:58:56+09:00
Subject: Re: help, I can't compile an extension on windows



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lionel Thiry [mailto:lthiryidontwantspam@skynetnospam.be] 
> Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 8:50 AM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Re: help, I can't compile an extension on windows
> 
> 
> ES a �crit :
> > Le 5/6/2005, "Lionel Thiry" <lthiryidontwantspam@skynetnospam.be> a
> > �crit:
> > 
> >>Daniel Berger a �crit :
> >>
> >>>Lionel Thiry wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>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.
> >>>
> >>
> >>I have it now, and it still don't work. There is something about a 
> >>missing windows.h that I can't find anywhere. I can't find 
> excepted in 
> >>my MinGw include dir, but if I add it to the INCLUDE var, I get 
> >>another bunch of errors (probably some kind of incompatibilities 
> >>between cl compiler and mingw headers)
> > 
> > 
> > You should not be mixing cl and MinGW...
> 
> I haven't. This what I tried to explained: if I mix them, I 
> get errors, so I don't.
> 
> > use whichever tool your
> > version of Ruby was compiled with. You can get the MS tools 
> as a free 
> > (your soul does not count) download if you need them.
> 
> I already have all the MS tools I should use: nmake, cl, 
> link, and the headers and libs, and so on. But I got the 
> error of windows.h missing, and there are no windows.h 
> anywhere in MS include stuff.

Then you must not have the platform SDK.  You should have a directory like 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows XP SP2'.  There should be an 'include' subdirectory there, and that's where your windows.h file should be.

Regards,

Dan