From: Heesob Park <phasis@...>
Date: 2010-11-02T22:32:58+09:00
Subject: Re: building ruby on windows 7

Hi,

2010/11/2 Daniel Bovensiepen <daniel@bovensiepen.net>:
> Hi Hessob,
>
> Thank you so much for your fast reply!
>
> Heesob Park wrote in post #957790:
>> I guess you mean the following message:
>>
>> cl -nologo -MD rtname.c user32.lib -link > nul
>> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cl' : return code '0x2'
>> Stop.
>>
>> The error means that you did not install Platform SDK.
>> You must install Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework
>> 4.
>> Refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows_SDK
>
> Actually I already have put all these SDKs in place and set the correct
> Lib, Include and Path Environment Variables. After trying to understand
> the build process of win32 a little bit, I found that there is something
> strange with win32\setup.mak
>
> In line 79 there is the following line:
>  $(CC) -MD <<rtname.c user32.lib -link > nul
>
> After removing the redirect "> nul" it immediately compiled everything
> and even the test-all target was execute with only minor problems
> (around 49 fails). Rubyspec is actually hanging at the Kernel.spawn task
> but this is another thing.
>
> I have to admit I'm still not complete understand the behavior, I expect
> this was just a symptom but not the real reason, cause otherwise this
> would be fixed a long time ago.
>
> I'm quite confident that all the things (cl, bison, sed, libs and
> includes) are in place but something has to be wrong with my setup due
> to the reason that I can't even configure the trunk without patching
> setup.mak. Any clue everyone? Is actually someone using win32 or is
> mingw32 the way everyone else is going?
>
Without > nul
C:\work\snapshot>win32\configure.bat
        cl -nologo -MD rtname.c user32.lib -link
rtname.c
Checking unicows.lib
Creating Makefile.new
"type `nmake' to make ruby."

With > nul
C:\work\snapshot>win32\configure.bat
        cl -nologo -MD rtname.c user32.lib -link > nul
Checking unicows.lib
Creating Makefile.new
"type `nmake' to make ruby."

With >x nul
C:\work\snapshot>win32\configure.bat
        cl -nologo -MD rtname.c user32.lib -link >x nul
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cl' : return code '0x2'
Stop.

I guess in your environment, the ">" redirection operator means something else.
What is the outoupt of "dir > nul"?

Regards,
Park Heesob