From: Chris Hulan <chris.hulan@...>
Date: 2009-03-05T00:08:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Compiling ruby on Windows 7 x64

On Mar 4, 9:29 am, Stanislaw Wozniak <s...@wozniak.com> wrote:
> I've been trying to compile newest 1.9.1-p0 ruby on windows 7 x64 but no
> success.
>
> Steps I have followed so far.
>
> 1. I have installed Visual Studio 2005
> 2. I have installed Microsoft Platform SDK
> 3. I have launched Visual Studio 2005 x64 Win64 command prompt
> 4. Navigated to the source directory (C:\ruby-1.9.1-p0)
> 5. In this directory I have executed
>    a) win32\configure --prefix=/usr/local --target=x64-mswin64
>    b) nmake
>
> You can find output from both commands attached. Basically it fails when
> it tries to build manifest file for miniruby.
>
> It fails with the following:
>
> cl -nologo main.obj dmydln.obj dmyencoding.obj miniprelude.obj array.obj
> bignum.obj  class.obj  compar.obj  complex.obj  dir.obj  enum.obj
> enumerator.obj  error.obj  eval.obj  load.obj  proc.obj  file.obj
> gc.obj  hash.obj  inits.obj  io.obj  marshal.obj  math.obj  numeric.obj
> object.obj  pack.obj  parse.obj  process.obj  random.obj  range.obj
> rational.obj  re.obj  regcomp.obj  regenc.obj  regerror.obj  regexec.obj
> regparse.obj  regsyntax.obj  ruby.obj  safe.obj  signal.obj  sprintf.obj
> st.obj  strftime.obj  string.obj  struct.obj  time.obj  transcode.obj
> util.obj  variable.obj  version.obj  compile.obj  debug.obj  iseq.obj
> vm.obj  vm_dump.obj  thread.obj  cont.obj  ascii.obj us_ascii.obj
> unicode.obj utf_8.obj  newline.obj  acosh.obj cbrt.obj crypt.obj erf.obj
> lgamma_r.obj strlcat.obj strlcpy.obj tgamma.obj win32.obj langinfo.obj
> dmyext.obj oldnames.lib user32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ws2_32.lib
> -Feminiruby.exe -link -incremental:no -debug -opt:ref -opt:icf
>    Creating library miniruby.lib and object miniruby.exp
>   miniruby.exe -v
> ruby 1.9.1p0 (2009-01-30 revision 21907) [x64-mswin64_80]
>   mt -nologo -manifest miniruby.exe.manifest
> -outputresource:miniruby.exe;2
>
> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual
> Studio 8\Common7\Tools\bin\mt.EXE"' : return code '0x1f'
> Stop.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Attachments:http://www.ruby-forum.com/attachment/3386/build.log
>
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No experience with this, but a quick google found this:
http://blogs.msdn.com/karinm/archive/2009/01/25/workaround-running-mt-exe-on-windows-7-beta.aspx

cheers
Chris