From: Jano Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2008-03-31T22:13:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Problems installing RRDtool gem under Windows

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Victor Reyes <victor.reyes@gmail.com> wrote:
> Team,
>
>  I am trying to install RRDtool under MS Windows/XP.
>  I tried to install the gem and got the following errors:
>
>  C:\$user\downloads\Ruby and Friends>ruby -v
>  ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [i386-mswin32]
>
>  C:\$user\downloads\Ruby and Friends>gem install RubyRRDtool-0.6.0.gem
>  Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
>  ERROR:  While executing gem ... (RuntimeError)
>     Error instaling RubyRRDtool-0.6.0.gem:
>         ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
>
>  ruby extconf.rb install RubyRRDtool-0.6.0.gem
>  checking for main() in z.lib... no
>  checking for main() in png.lib... no
>  checking for main() in freetype.lib... no
>  checking for main() in art_lgpl_2.lib... no
>  checking for rrd_first() in rrd.lib... no
>  creating Makefile
>
>  nmake
>  'nmake' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
>  operable program or batch file.
>
>
>  Gem files will remain installed in
>  c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/RubyRRDtool-0.6.0 for inspection.
>  Results logged to c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/RubyRRDtool-0.6.0
>  /gem_make.out
>
>  I then tried the binary distribution (
>
>   rrdtool-1.2.27-w32.zip
>  <http://www.gknw.net/mirror/rrdtool/rrdtool-1.2.27-w32.zip>
>        06-Mar-2008 02:24  1.0M  ZIP compressed archive) for Windows.
>
>  But when I try the sample pgm I get the error listed below.
>
>  C:\$user\downloads\Ruby and Friends\rrdtool-1.2.27-w32\rrdtool-1.2.27-w32>ls
>  -al
>  total 4146
>  drwx------  2 ReyesV   Domain+Users      512 Mar 31 08:49 .
>  drwx------  3 ReyesV   Domain+Users      512 Mar 28 15:39 ..
>  -rwx------  1 ReyesV   Domain+Users   113828 Feb 17 10:26 CHANGES
>  -rwx------  1 ReyesV   Domain+Users    15405 Feb 17 10:26 COPYING
>  -rwx------  1 ReyesV   Domain+Users     3693 Feb 17 10:26 COPYRIGHT
>  -rwx------  1 ReyesV   Domain+Users    60444 Feb 17 10:26
>  DejaVuSansMono-Roman.ttf
>  -rwx------  1 ReyesV   Domain+Users     2031 Feb 17 10:26 NEWS
>  -rwx------  1 ReyesV   Domain+Users     2545 Feb 17 10:26 README
>  -rwx------  1 ReyesV   Domain+Users      183 Mar  6 01:23 readme.txt
>  -rwx------  1 ReyesV   Domain+Users   960512 Mar  6 01:23 rrdcgi.exe
>  -rwx------  1 ReyesV   Domain+Users   959488 Mar  6 01:23 rrdtool.exe
>  -rwx------  1 ReyesV   Domain+Users     1090 Mar 28 15:59 rrdtoolTest00.rb
>
>  C:\$user\downloads\Ruby and Friends\rrdtool-1.2.27-w32\rrdtool-1.2.27-w32>ruby
>  rrdtoolTest00.rb
>  c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
>  `gem_original_require': no such file to load -- RRD (LoadError)
>         from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
>  `require'
>         from rrdtoolTest00.rb:1

You need to have VC6 installed and its environment setup before
running gem install (call vsvars32.bat).
After you do that, make sure nmake.exe in in your %PATH%.

The binary distribution doesn't contain the ruby extension, you are
looking for binary GEM, but rubyforge has only source one.

Jano