From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2008-12-23T02:36:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Why Ruby stops working under cygwin

On Dec 21, 2:47 pm, Li Chen <chen_...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I want to call voice function using win32ole under cygwin. But Ruby
> always stops working and a new window pops up the error message. I
> wonder how to fix it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Li
>
> $ irb
> irb(main):001:0> require 'win32ole'
> => true
> irb(main):002:0>
> irb(main):003:0*  v=WIN32OLE.new('SAPI.SpVoice')
> => #<WIN32OLE:0x7ffa1a0c>
> irb(main):004:0> v.speak('hello')
>
> Error message in the pop windows:
> Ruby interpreter (CUI) 1.8.7.o [i386-cygwin] has stopped working.
> --
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From my experience Cygwin doens't play nice with Windows Native API.
For having Win32OLE working properly I suggest you use One-Click Ruby
Installer instead.

http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyinstaller

--
Luis Lavena