From: Rich Kilmer <rich@...>
Date: 2001-10-30T12:50:33+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23798] Problem Building Ruby extension (swin) with MinGW under Win2K...

Question:

I am trying to build SWin under Win2K.

I've installed MinGW (and placed it in \usr\local\mingw)

I downloaded the source for SWin (inro \dev\swin)

I have the latest MinGW version of Ruby installed (\usr\local\bin)

I run:

c:\def\swin> ruby extconf.rb
checking for main() in -lole32... no
checking for main() in -lwinspool... no
checking for main() in -lcomctl32... no
checking for main() in -lcomdlg32... no
checking for main() in -lgdi32... no
checking for main() in -luser32... no
checking for main() in -lkernel32... no
creating Makefile

and I get the following in the mkmf.log file (repeated several times):

gcc -bmingw -o conftest -Ic:/infoether/ruby/lib/ruby/1.6/i386-mingw32 -DNT -D__MSVCRT__ -Os  -I/usr/local/mingw/include   -I/usr/local/mingw/include   -L/usr/local/mingw/lib conftest.c -lole32   -lwsock32 -lmsvcrt 
gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cpp0': No such file or directory

This error usually means that the path to gcc, etc is not set, but it is.

It builds a Makefile, but when I try and make, I get the same error (gcc: installation problem...).

Can anyone help?

-Rich