From: Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen@...>
Date: 2007-04-19T05:01:30+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby crashes on windows across three versions

On 4/18/07, Ben <benbelly@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm working on some scripts for work to manage some build releases,
> and I'm using ruby and the p4ruby  libraries on Windows XP.  When I
> run my script from the command line or by loading it into IRB, I get:
>
> ---------------------------
> ./SourceControl.rb:63: [BUG] Segmentation fault
> ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [i386-mswin32]
>
>
> This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an
> unusual way.
> Please contact the application's support team for more information.
> ---------------------------
>
> I've tried with ruby 1.8.2, 1.8.5, 1.8.6 (all installed w/ the One-
> click installer), and I get the exact same thing with each of them.
> Just to see if I could get a better error message, I downloaded
> ArachnoRuby and ran w/ that.  My script runs successfully when I run
> it from the IDE.  While that has suddenly sold me on ArachnoRuby, it
> doesn't clear up my problem.  Any thoughts?

I'm sure it would help if you posted the code causing the error. The
first guess would be that  there's a bug or incompatibility in the
p4ruby extension.