From: Shawn Fessenden <s_fessenden@...>
Date: 2008-11-01T00:09:14+09:00
Subject: Re: rb_sys_fail(socket(2)) Ticket #9438

"Roger Pack" <rogerpack2005@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:7bf0dd5e72829ce1fd7b9f1943eca633@ruby-forum.com...
> Shawn Fessenden wrote:
>> Where are we with respect to the (Windows) one click installer & this
>> issue?
>>
>> I don't have VC++ 8 & so can't compile. Are there binaries available
>> somewhere? If so can I just plop 'em in \ruby\bin? Should I fall back to
>> 1.8.4?
>> -SHAWN-
>
> You could try the mingw ruby version.  Then at least you have the
> compiler.
> Should it fail there then...unfortunately you'll probably have to hack
> around in the C and try and figure out what is going on.
> It might be a ruby bug, might be a VC6 bug.
> you could try cygwin, too.
> Also could file a bug report on http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/
> Cheers!
> -=R

Yes in fact it was determined (more or less) to be a ... call it a VC6 RT 
incompatibility. At any rate, dev folks are aware of it. In fact the ticket 
was closed almost a year ago. The binaries installed by the one click 
installer still suffer the problem (as of 1.8.6-26, PL 111).

I was hoping somebody had devised a workaround or there was a VC8 binary set 
around somewhere. I'm planning on distributing a rubyscript2exe executable 
that will target XP & use ICMP. But... that part is mostly just a whistle. I 
could do without it. Or 1.8.4 is an option.

Anyway thanks for the reply.
-SHAWN-