From: Jacob Quinn Shenker <jqshenker@...>
Date: 2005-11-23T10:15:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and cygwin: supported?

I ran into this problem a while ago: Uninstall your native Windowsversion, and get the cygwin version. It's really hard (impossible,maybe) to make the native version play nicely with cygwin. I also hadto recompile Ruby from source, as one of the bundled cygwin binarieskept crashing.
Jacob
On 11/22/05, Hugh Sasse <hgs@dmu.ac.uk> wrote:> On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Pascal Sartoretti wrote:>> > Robert Klemme wrote:> > > What exactly do you mean by this?  cygwin.com maintains a ruby package so> > > in a way you can say it's supported.> >> > I didn't know! I just installed Ruby the "regular" way, and wanted to be able> > to invoque it from the Cygwin shell.> >> > > Which things didn't work for you?> >> > For instance, when using gem:> >> > c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe: No such file or directory -- /cygdrive/c/ruby/bin/gem> > (LoadError)>> Did you install rubygems in the same way as you installed your> cygwin ruby?  The paths are setup with respect to the ruby you are> using it with.> >> > I have the feeling that ruby is lost between the Windows and the Cygwin way of> > naming directories.>> They are effectively two separate installs.   You probably want your> .bashrc or _bashrc to sort out the paths properly for cygwin as> well.  it should not be looking for ruby stuff in /cygrdrive/c/ruby> because that is the C:\ruby directory that the Windows setup uses,> which has ruby built against different DLL files.  The default ruby> install will put ruby in /usr/local/bin/ruby and so on.  And ruby> built from sources does not have rubygems built in.> >> > Pascal> >>         Hugh>>