From: gregarican <greg.kujawa@...>
Date: 2006-01-05T10:42:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby PDA implementation?

jst...@gmail.com wrote:

> Just blogged an article describing what I did to get Ruby running on my
> iPAQ:
> http://jason.stell.us/2006/01/ruby-on-ipaq-pocket-pc.html

I did this as well. The problem is that I receive Wince::Strerror error
messages when doing various things --- from executing a Ruby script
from the command line (like using 'ruby myScript.rb') to parsing xmlrpc
calls. It seems as if these binaries aren't compatible with my Dell
Axim x50 handheld. It has an ARM processor and it uses Windows Mobile
5.0. But for some reason the handling of strings isn't being done
correctly.

What OS is running on your iPaq? Can you successfully run Ruby scripts
from the command line? I can do things like ruby -e "print 'hello,
world!'" but that's about it without the Wince::Strerror messages. And
trying to cross-compile Ruby for Wince using Embedded MSVC fails due to
one compilation error or another using the sources for Ruby 1.8.1 all
the way through Ruby 1.8.4 :-(