From: Dominic Sisneros <dsisnero@...>
Date: 2008-11-05T02:04:35+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] FFI 0.1.1 (Foreign Function Interface) for Ruby 1.8.6/7 and 1.9

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>
> On windows, I can't get it to work for jruby or ruby


C:\jruby-1.1.5>jruby -v
jruby 1.1.5 (ruby 1.8.6 patchlevel 114) (2008-11-03 rev 7996) [x86-java]

C:\jruby-1.1.5>cd samples\ffi

C:\jruby-1.1.5\samples\ffi>dir
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is F4EA-F50A

 Directory of C:\jruby-1.1.5\samples\ffi

11/03/2008  05:04 PM    <DIR>          .
11/03/2008  05:04 PM    <DIR>          ..
11/03/2008  04:42 PM               301 ffi.rb
11/03/2008  04:42 PM               367 gettimeofday.rb
11/03/2008  04:42 PM             2,340 pty.rb
11/03/2008  04:42 PM               476 qsort.rb
11/03/2008  04:42 PM             2,078 win32api.rb
               5 File(s)          5,562 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  18,840,158,208 bytes free

C:\jruby-1.1.5\samples\ffi>jruby win32api.rb
null:1:in `const_missing': uninitialized constant POSIX::FFI (NameError)
        from ffi.rb:4
        from ffi.rb:1:in `require'
        from win32api.rb:1

C:\jruby-1.1.5\samples\ffi>

For MRI, it tries to compile

C:\jruby-1.1.5\samples\ffi>gem install ffi
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing ffi:
        ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

c:/ruby/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb install ffi
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/ffi-0.1.1
for inspection.
Results logged to c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ffi-0.1.1/ext/gem_make.out

C:\jruby-1.1.5\samples\ffi>

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