From: John Snowdon Date: 2008-02-22T08:22:19+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby on WinCE / cegcc John Snowdon wrote: > > Is this worthwhile? The dozens of other questions about ruby on > wince/pocket pc all have the same problems (wince:strerror or the path > problems), so some kind of solution is needed. Ok, so after spending a whole day on this I actually got the latest version of Ruby (1.8.6-p111) to compile using the arm-wince-cegcc toolchain and run on a Windows Mobile 5 device. It also doesn't spit out the wince::strerror, so good news there. However, the relative path problem is still there - I thought the extra stuff in newlib from the cegcc project may have gone some way to alleviating it, but as of now it's still unuseable for all but the most trivial of code (can you imagine modifying all of the files that a framework like Rails uses, so that everything was absolute?). Don't think by having a running ruby binary that you'll be installing gems, left right and centre, or firing up a Rails app any time soon :-( If anyone is interested, I'll put a web page up on a system at work to allow others to use it. I'll also document the modifications needed in order to compile cleanly. Looks like a dead end for my intentions of Ruby on WinCE/Pocket PC though, unless someone can figure out a workaround for the Windows CE path problem? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.