From: gregarican <greg.kujawa@...>
Date: 2006-03-15T06:13:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Build for Windows Mobile Failed

Daniel V�lkerts wrote:

> I searched the ruby-talk archives and googled but both left me alone.
>
>
> After I read the README.wince documentation for the build process I
> installed all the required files.

Join the club. I have tried building a WinCE version against Ruby
versions 1.6.8 through 1.8.4 with no luck. I wound up installing a
binary version I found on this website -->
http://uema2.s8.xrea.com/ruby-mswince/. It seemed to work up to a
certain point but then the Ruby interpreter would error out trying to
parse the scripts it was given as a command line argument.The string
module must be incompatible between the Ruby binary version and my
WinCE platform (in this case a Dell Axim x50 running Windows Mobile
5.0). Since I had to port my client app to this platform I rewrote the
whole thing in Python. Not fun but it was the best tool for the job.