From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-08-09T06:24:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Installing rb-gsl-1.7.0 on Windows

On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Andrew Foerster wrote:

> Maybe I'm being dense but I'm trying to install GSL on Windows.
>
> I'm trying to take the precompiled route with the rb-gsl-1.7.0 tarball
> (http://codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby/rb-gsl-win/) and I unzip it into
> c:/rb-gsl-1.7.0.  The instructions specify that the gsl-config must be
> in the search path so I ensure that my path has my ruby executable
> (1.8.4) and has the rb-gsl-1.7.0 directory included.
>
> Yet, when I execute the setup I get the following:
>
> checking gsl version... C:/rb-gsl-1.7.0/ext/extconf.rb:143: Check
> GSL>=0.9.4 is
> installed, and the command "gsl-config" is in search path.
> (RuntimeError)
> setup.rb:535:in `command': 'system c:/ruby/bin/ruby
> C:/rb-gsl-1.7.0/ext/extconf.
> rb ' failed (RuntimeError)
>
> Is my gsl-config not in the path somehow?  Or do I need some other GSL
> package previously installed?  Should I be install through MS command
> prompt, or Cygwin (I've tried both, same message).
>
> Alternatively, I've tried compiling my own binaries through Cygwin and
> I'm still waiting for those to finish compiling, but when I did it the
> first run through I didn't specify the prefix (which I figure messed it
> up).

(and it shouldn't have ':' in it!)

>
> Anyway, any information you can provide as far as getting GSL onto my
> Windows environment would be great.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew

all you should need to do is unpack the source, then run

   ruby install.rb

try that and let me know how it goes - i've mananged to install it on several
machines that way.  the setup.rb/README stuff if for compiling it ourself.

-a
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