From: Lyle Johnson <ljohnson@...>
Date: 2001-10-02T00:49:24+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:21867] Re: windows xp fxruby load error

> once again one of the main features of Ruby :/

Yes, an error message that doesn't give us much to go on :(

> in `require': dlopen: Win32 error 1114 -
> /cygdrive/c/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/i386-cygwin/fox.so (LoadError)
>
> Windows XP english release (v2002)
> Installshield version 1.6.4-3 with "build-in" FXRuby
> Also tried 164-2 and 163-1 with FXRuby 174, same error.
> win32ole or odbc for example work as expected.
>
> Any ideas?

I don't have access to Windows XP (only Win98 at home, and Win2k here at
work) so I can't give any concrete answers. I do know that Win32 error 1114
is:

"A dynamic link library (DLL) initialization routine failed."

and in practice this *usually* means that one of the DLLs that fox.so
depends on is either missing or cannot be loaded for some other reason. So I
ran cygcheck on the fox.so that is distributed with the Ruby 1.6.4-3
installer and got the results:

Found: .\fox.so
..\fox.so
  c:\ruby\bin\cygwin-ruby16.dll
    C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll
      C:\WINNT\System32\KERNEL32.dll
        C:\WINNT\System32\NTDLL.DLL
    C:\WINNT\System32\USER32.dll
      C:\WINNT\System32\GDI32.DLL
  C:\WINNT\System32\ADVAPI32.DLL
    C:\WINNT\System32\RPCRT4.DLL
  C:\WINNT\System32\COMCTL32.DLL
  C:\WINNT\System32\GLU32.DLL
    C:\WINNT\System32\MSVCRT.dll
    C:\WINNT\System32\OPENGL32.dll
      C:\WINNT\System32\DDRAW.dll
        C:\WINNT\System32\DCIMAN32.dll
  C:\WINNT\System32\MPR.DLL
  C:\WINNT\System32\SHELL32.DLL
    C:\WINNT\System32\SHLWAPI.DLL
  C:\WINNT\System32\WINSPOOL.DRV

Which is to say, fox.so depends on all of these libraries either directly or
indirectly. I know that some versions of Windows 95 did not include the
OpenGL runtime libraries (OPENGL32.DLL and GLU32.DLL) but *surely* those are
standard in Windows XP (famous last words). Can you do a file find to
confirm that all of these libraries are installed on your system?

On a side note, it appears (after scanning the Cygwin mailing lists) that
Cygwin support for Windows XP is shaky at best, and the Cygwin development
team is not even worried about it until Windows XP is "officially" released
later this month. In fact they've gotten a little hostile about the whole
question, as evidenced by this post to the mailing list in September:

    http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-09/msg00436.html

If (when) Windows XP is supported in Cygwin, it will definitely only be for
the more recent 1.3.x releases of Cygwin; I wouldn't expect them to
back-port any fixes to the Cygwin 1.1.x libraries that Ruby is currently
built against. Something to consider for the Ruby-on-Windows maintainers,
FWIW. Or for that matter, dump Cygwin altogether and move towards a native
Windows (i.e. MinGW-based) distribution. Maybe this is something that we can
all discuss at RubyConf?

Lyle