From: Zed Shaw <zedshaw@...>
Date: 2006-02-02T09:40:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Trying to compile Mongrel with nmake


On Feb 1, 2006, at 4:47 PM, olleolleolle wrote:

> Hi group,
>
> My name is Olle, and I'm on Windows at the moment, and I procrastinate
> from work by trying to get nmake to compile the Mongrel gem. (I'm a
> beginner at compiling.)
>
> I got the nmake1.5 from Microsoft's website, after following the  
> advice
> of a blog post on a Perl website.
> http://johnbokma.com/perl/make-for-windows.html. I stuck the nmake.exe
> and nmake.err in the ruby/bin folder. From there, I could run it.
>
>
As Austin mentioned before I think you need the entire Microsoft VC++  
set of tools.  I believe you can get these for free now, but I'm not  
quite sure if those will build modules for Ruby.  I'm actually  
looking to build a pre-compiled gem for win32 and osx in the near  
future.

>
> 1. Is nmake 1.50 good enough to compile Mongrel?
>
Sorry, no idea really.  I don't do as many win32 builds as I should.

<snip>
> 4. After the nmake lines I have the happy messages:
>
>   Successfully installed mongrel, version 0.1.0
>   Installing RDoc documentation for mongrel-0.1.0...
>
Darn, looks like it still says 0.1.0 for the version.  I'll have to  
update as it *should* be 0.2.0.

> When I try and run the included script at http:// 
> mongrel.rubyforge.org/
> under the heading "Usage", I get an error:
>
Yeah, something is up.  I'd say keep tinkering if you want, but  
mostly you're probably better off waiting for the next release and  
using the pre-built gems I want to do.

Zed A. Shaw
http://www.zedshaw.com/