From: Richard Lionheart <NoOne@...>
Date: 2005-10-31T18:27:06+09:00
Subject: Problem installing FxRuby

Hi All,

I'm running Ruby 1.8.2-15 over WinXP-Pro/SP2.  I tried to install Ruby on 
Rails by executing:
-- gem update
-- gem install rails
but I got an error from "gem update" relating to its inability to find FX 
headers, or something like that.

Following is a list of the my attempts to get around this problem followed 
with a couple of questions of how I should proceed.  Any suggestions or 
comments would be gratefully received.

*** My attempts to get around this problem ***

So I decided to install FxRuby by downloading it into my 
K:\_Utilities\Ruby_1.8.2-15\FxRuby directory from 
http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/5675/FXRuby-1.4.2-ruby182.exe.  That 
seemed to go fine.

Then I tried to run the simple example from FxRuby's documentation and ran 
into a problem with the first line: require 'fox14' with the messages:

k:/_utilities/ruby_1.8.2-15/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:18:in 
`require__': No such file to load --
 fox14 (LoadError)
        from 
k:/_utilities/ruby_1.8.2-15/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:18:in 
`require'
        from FxTest1.rbw:1

Hunting for "Fox14" revealed four of them in various places in my 
Ruby_1.8.2-15 directory:
-- K:\_Utilities\Ruby_1.8.2-15\FxRuby\lib\ruby\site_ruby\1.8\fox14\

--  
K:\_Utilities\Ruby_1.8.2-15\FxRuby\lib\ruby\site_ruby\1.8\i386-msvcrt\fox14.so

-- K:\_Utilities\Ruby_1.8.2-15\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\fxruby-1.4.2\ext\fox14

-- K:\_Utilities\Ruby_1.8.2-15\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\fxruby-1.4.2\lib\fox14



*** My current idea about how to the problem ***



I think I should delete the latter two directories.  Do you agree?



Additionally,  I should arrange for "require" to search the 
"...\i386-msvcrt" directory so that it can utilize the "fox14.so" file. How 
can I do that?  Perhaps including it in the PATH environment variable?  Or 
some Ruby-specific environment variable?




-- 
Regards,
Richard