From: Roger Pack Date: 2008-11-01T00:13:49+09:00 Subject: Re: rb_sys_fail(socket(2)) Ticket #9438 Shawn Fessenden wrote: > "Roger Pack" wrote in message > news:7bf0dd5e72829ce1fd7b9f1943eca633@ruby-forum.com... >> 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- If it's a VC6 bug then it might not be a super huge prio, since OCI is moving away from VC6 hopefuly soon. http://www.akitaonrails.com/2008/7/26/still-playing-with-ruby-on-windows is an example of the mingw installer. Perhaps it plays better. Cheers! -=R -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.