From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2005-09-11T02:21:31+09:00
Subject: Problems building Ruby from source on Windows

Hi all,

Windows XP Pro

C:\ruby>cl
Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 13.10.3077 for
80x86

I'm having trouble building Ruby from source on my Windows box.  I've
tried the latest stable snapshot (Sept. 10, 2005) and 1.8.3p1.

In the case of 1.8.3p1, cl.exe hangs indefinitely trying to build
parse.c.  In the case of the snapshot, it dies with this error during
nmake:

        cl -nologo -MD -Zi -O2b2xg- -G6 -DRUBY_EXPORT -I. -I.
-I./missing  -c -Tcdmyext.c
dmyext.c
        lib -nologo -machine:x86 -out:msvcr71-ruby18-static.lib
array.obj  bignum.obj  class.obj  compar.obj  dir.obj  dln.obj
enum.obj  error.obj  eval.obj  file.obj  gc.obj  hash.obj  inits.obj
io.obj  marshal.obj  math.obj  numeric.obj object.obj  pack.obj
parse.obj  process.obj  prec.obj  random.obj  range.obj  re.obj
regex.obj  ruby.obj  signal.obj sprintf.obj  st.obj  string.obj
struct.obj  time.obj  util.obj  variable.obj  version.obj  acosh.obj
crypt.obj erf.obj win32.obj dmyext.obj
'lib' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'lib' : return code '0x1'

As per the instructions, I ran win32\configure.bat, then nmake.  I also
tried tweaking the prefix, but that made no difference.

What am I doing wrong?

Regards,

Dan