From: Guilherme <antoniolo@...>
Date: 2008-02-10T03:35:00+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby1.9 on windows

On Feb 9, 11:03 am, Guilherme <antoni...@gmail.com> wrote:
> hello, my first post here :D
>
> Here, ruby1.8 runs great on Windows. I'm able to compile & develop
> some extensions, play with gems. Anyway, doing usual things ...
>
> However I'm not really getting on well with ruby 1.9.
>
> First, rubygems is installing gems into a weird directory "C:\LAN...".
> The most interesting part is that when requiring a gem, it looks for
> "C:\ruby\lib\gem\...." instead of "C:LAN...". Ok, I managed to solve
> this by just changing the --install-dir to the appropriate path. Now
> rubygems apparently runs gracefully.
>
> Second, I'm trying to compile some libs of mine (which BTW use
> extensions)
>
> "mkmf can find header files for ruby at C:/ruby1.9/lib/ruby/include/
> ruby.h"
>
> I've placed all the necessary files into C:/ruby1.9/lib/ruby/include
> and it still doesn't find them.
>
> Just to make sure:
>
> ruby -v
> ruby 1.9.0 (2007-12-25 revision 14709) [i386-mswin32]
>
> Thanks,
> G

After a while I decided to give it another try.

I've tweaked a little bit the rbconfig.rb and mkmf.rb. Looks like I'm
now able to compile extensiosn again.

Thanks,
G