From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-10-19T01:17:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Open GL on OS X?

On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Talha Syed wrote:

> John Gabriele wrote:
>> On 10/15/06, Talha Syed <talhasy@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi all.
>>>
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>> So, does anyone know of a good, easy to install OpenGL/GLUT library that
>>> I can use on Mac OS X? Thanks in advance for the replies!
>>
>> Well, we haven't made a release yet, but you might grab (via svn) and
>> build the files from http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-opengl/ and
>> give it a shot. I think it should work for Mac OS X.
>>
>> ---John
>
> Thanks for all the replies.
>
> Man, have I been having a tough time with ruby-opengl. The rakefile
> simply aborts with the following error:
>
> --------------------------------
> Pro530Rage:~/Desktop/gzz/trunk talhasyed$ rake --trace
> (in /Users/talhasyed/Desktop/gzz/trunk)
> ** Invoke default (first_time)
> ** Invoke ext/gl/gl.bundle (first_time)
> ** Invoke ext/gl/gl.o (first_time)
> ** Invoke ext/gl/gl.c (first_time, not_needed)
> ** Execute ext/gl/gl.o
>
> ============================== compiling: ext/gl/gl.c --> ext/gl/gl.o
> cc -g -O2 -pipe -fno-common -I/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-darwin8.8.1
> -F/System/Library/Frameworks -c -o ext/gl/gl.o ext/gl/gl.c
> {standard input}:unknown:FATAL:can't create output file: ext/gl/gl.o
> rake aborted!

this looks like your disk is full and/or you have a permissions error.  try
running that command by hand and seeing if there's any more info


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