From: Axel Etzold <AEtzold@...>
Date: 2008-08-30T22:12:26+09:00
Subject: Re: gem (update ?) problem


-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:37:52 +0900
> Von: "Peter K." <pk.hot@hotmail.de>
> An: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> Betreff: Re: gem (update ?) problem

> Dear Axel,
> 
> the bottom line seems to be:  MS VC 6.0 does not run under Windows Vista 
> !
> 
> Too bad, I have already invested too much time trying to get this 
> running.
> 
> But other people seem to use Ruby with Vista, so there must be some 
> other way (other than using MS VC 6.0 ) ?
> 
> 
> Best Peter
> 
> -- 
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Dear Peter,
Dear _why,

I couldn't install MS VC6.0 on Vista either.

Now, as you started this post by requesting a hpricot gem, and as _why
is offering a binary version for Windows, you can install a gem from there, using
the Ruby One-click version (http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyinstaller/)  
(on my system, I have 1.8.6-26 together with Vista Ultimate).
Open the gems package manager and type in the following:

gem install hpricot --source http://code.whytheluckystiff.net

(see here: http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hpricot/wiki/InstallingHpricot)

I ran the example script from hpricot (http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hpricot/) without
any problems.

It seems the Windows gems are actually not compiled under Windows, but cross-compiled
using mingw on BSD. 

I found the following quote from 2006 ...

>I mean that’s alot better than putting together a VM and trying to track down a decent free Microsoft >compiler. A couple weeks ago, I spent six hours on it and made no progress.

See here: http://redhanded.hobix.com/inspect/hpricotAndSandboxForWin32.html

_why: are you still using Mingw on BSD for cross-compiling the software you are offering
for the Windows platforms ?

Best regards,

Axel 

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