From: "John T." <johnts@...>
Date: 2008-07-24T21:23:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Errors installing RedCloth 4.0 on Windows XP

Jason Garber wrote:
> I think I know what happened--you're using an older version of RubyGems
> and the RedCloth gem I published has a platform name in the new style:
> i386-mswin32.
> 
> Upgrading RubyGems should help: gem update --system
> 
> I'll work on a fix so it's accessible to people with older RubyGems
> (pre-1.0, I think).  I tested on Windows, but only with RubyGems 1.2.0.
> 
> Jason Garber

Nope. I'm using the latest Rubygems: (I included that I'm running the 
VCVARS32.BAT file to install the VS 2003 items into the path. When 
trying to use the VS 2005 version, it also fails, but with a different 
error - that's at the bottom)

C:\Documents and Settings\me>gem -v
1.2.0

C:\Documents and Settings\me>VCVARS32.BAT
Setting environment for using Microsoft Visual C++ tools.
C:\Documents and Settings\jtsombakos>gem install RedCloth
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing RedCloth:
        ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

c:/ruby/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb install RedCloth
creating Makefile

nmake

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility   Version 6.00.8168.0
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1988-1998. All rights reserved.

        cl -nologo -I. -Ic:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-mswin32 
-Ic:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.
8/i386-mswin32 -I. -MD -Zi -O2b2xg- -G6 -O2  -c -Tcredcloth_attributes.c
redcloth_attributes.c
ext/redcloth_scan/redcloth_attributes.rl(6) : error C2275: 'VALUE' : 
illegal use
 of this type as an expression
        c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-mswin32\ruby.h(86) : see declaration 
of 'VALUE
'
ext/redcloth_scan/redcloth_attributes.rl(6) : error C2146: syntax error 
: missin
g ';' before identifier 'buf'
ext/redcloth_scan/redcloth_attributes.rl(3) : error C2275: 'VALUE' : 
illegal use
 of this type as an expression
        c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-mswin32\ruby.h(86) : see declaration 
of 'VALUE
'
ext/redcloth_scan/redcloth_attributes.rl(3) : error C2146: syntax error 
: missin
g ';' before identifier 'buf'
ext/redcloth_scan/redcloth_attributes.rl(67) : error C2143: syntax error 
: missi
ng ';' before 'type'
ext/redcloth_scan/redcloth_attributes.rl(68) : error C2065: 'cs' : 
undeclared id
entifier
ext/redcloth_scan/redcloth_attributes.rl(76) : error C2143: syntax error 
: missi
ng ';' before 'type'
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cl' : return code '0x2'
Stop.


Gem files will remain installed in 
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/RedCloth-4.0.0
 for inspection.
Results logged to 
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/RedCloth-4.0.0/ext/redcloth_sca
n/gem_make.out

C:\Documents and Settings\me>ruby -v
ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13 patchlevel 0) [i386-mswin32]

(Trying to use VS 2005 settings:)

Setting environment for using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 x86 tools.

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC>gem install RedCloth
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing RedCloth:
        ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

c:/ruby/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb install RedCloth
creating Makefile

nmake

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 8.00.50727.762
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

        cl -nologo -I. -Ic:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-mswin32 
-Ic:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.
8/i386-mswin32 -I. -MD -Zi -O2b2xg- -G6 -O2  -c -Tcredcloth_attributes.c
cl : Command line warning D9035 : option 'Og-' has been deprecated and 
will be r
emoved in a future release
cl : Command line warning D9002 : ignoring unknown option '-G6'
redcloth_attributes.c
c:\ruby\lib\ruby\1.8\i386-mswin32\config.h(2) : fatal error C1189: 
#error :  MSC
 version unmatch
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 
8\VC\BIN\c
l.EXE"' : return code '0x2'
Stop.


Gem files will remain installed in 
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/RedCloth-4.0.0
 for inspection.
Results logged to 
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/RedCloth-4.0.0/ext/redcloth_sca
n/gem_make.out

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC>
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