From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2006-10-12T13:24:20+09:00
Subject: Re: FXRuby problems

dbstraig wrote:
> It seems Fox produces all sorts of problems, but the last post on this
> particular problem I could find was from 2004. I'm running Ruby on
> WinXP. I installed with the one-click installer. I've tried using Fox
> right after installing with the one-click installer and after updating
> the FXRuby gem. Either way, I get the same problem. Whenever I try to
> run anything using Fox (even if I just to irb and type require
> 'fxruby'), I get several thousand "already initialized constant"
> errors. Here's a sample:
> 
> C:/Programming/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fxruby-1.6.2-mswin32/ext/fox16/fox16.so:
> warning: already initialized constant LAYOUT_TOP
> 
> The programs still run, and if I set $VERBOSE = nil, I don't see any
> errors, but I'd like to actually solve the problem instead of just
> pretending it doesn't exist (unless it isn't really a problem, which I
> suppose I can live with).  
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 

http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=5633&group_id=300&atid=1223

It's rumored to be a bug in ruby-1.8.5. If you go back to the 1.8.4 
one-click installer, you should be ok.

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