From: uncutstone wu <uncutstone@...>
Date: 2006-05-25T04:11:12+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby 1.8.4 compilation failed on cygwin

Ryan Leavengood wrote:
> On 5/24/06, uncutstone wu <uncutstone@sina.com> wrote:
>>
>> I download a one click installer for windows, ruby184-16p3.exe.
>> I am sorry I don't know how to install it under cygwin. I have a 1.8.1
>> ruby under cygwin and I want to upgrade it.
> 
> Mixing cygwin and the one click installer is a bad idea from what I've 
> seen.
> 
> Based on your compiler errors, it seems that the compiler cannot find
> the needed Windows headers to compile win32ole. You should probably
> remove that from the list of extensions to compile. I can't recall off
> hand how this is done, but I believe it is in the README.
> 
> Ryan


I gave up compiling it and finally upgraded it from cygwin.com using its 
installation tools setup.exe.

Thanks,

uncutstone

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