From: Daniel Stephens <danny.a.stephens@...>
Date: 2011-06-17T10:45:37+09:00
Subject: Re: win32-service gem

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thanks for responding so quickly!  I'll look into this. Since Phillip
brought up the point of 1.8.6. Is the upgrade to 1.8.7+ pretty straight
forward? As in still a one click install, etc.?

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Luis Lavena <luislavena@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jun 16, 5:39 pm, Daniel Stephens <danny.a.steph...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > [Note:  parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.]
> >
> > Hey all, has anyone been able to use win32-service-0.7.0.gem. when I try
> to
> > install the gem it fails wanting nmake. I got that setup on my box, and
> now
> > I get the below. I don't know what it wants. Any ideas?
> >
> > OS - Windows XP
> > Ruby Version - ruby 1.8.6 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 287) [i386-mswin32]
> >
> > C:/Ruby/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb install win32-service
> > checking for strncpy_s()... no
> > creating Makefile
> >
> > nmake
> >
> > Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility   Version 1.50
> > Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-94. All rights reserved.
> >
> >         C:\Ruby\bin\ruby -e "puts 'EXPORTS', 'Init_api'"  >
> > api-i386-mswin32.def
> >         cl -nologo -I. -I. -IC:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-mswin32 -I. -MD
> -Zi
> > -O2b2xg- -G6  -c -Tcwin32/api.c
> > 'cl' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> > operable program or batch file.
> > NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe' : return code
> '0x1'
> > Stop.
>
> Seems your version of Ruby was build with Visual Studio, you need
> Visual Studio installed to be able to compile gems (which is the case
> for win32-api one)
>
> --
> Luis Lavena
>
>

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