From: Ramesh Ramloll Date: 2002-11-27T23:49:30+09:00 Subject: Re: RUDL install problems on win32 Hi Bill, Checked the windows excutables search path, its pointing to the right place. All the dlls are in c:\ruby\bin and the latter of course is on my PATH. Well was just trying some interesting minimal multi-media application to learn Ruby. I was wondering about what I would like in a development environment. I have been programming since my undergrad years which is 10 yrs now, and from a not-too skilled and impatient programmer's perspective, I think there has always been a lot of un-necessary cognitive load on setting things up before you get started. I remember this was true with the Java CLASSPATH in the begining. I am familiar with the VC++ environment, but I have too say linking with other libraries etc... was never without any trials and errors. Is it a worthwhile goal to inject some intelligence in a dev environment that will allow some piece of code to search for the appropriate libs, modules automatically? May be there could be some dll (and whatever else the program needs) recognition facility inbuilt. I am just thinking aloud, am sure other people have thought and built things around this that I am not aware of. Anyway, at least OpenGL and GLUT seems to work for me so may I drop RUDL for now. R --- Bill Kelly wrote: > Hi, > > From: "Ramesh Ramloll" > > > > I followed the instructions to install RUDL from > the > > site > > > http://froukepc.dhs.org/rudl/docs/howto_install.html > > > > Opened sample RUDL program and tried to run it and > > this is what I get. (Point to note is that RUDL.so > is > > indeed in > C:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.7/i386-mswin32/RUDL.so) > > > > C:/RUBY/lib/ruby/1.7/i386-mswin32/RUDL.so: 1157: > One > > of the library files needed to run this > application > > cannot be found. - > > Wow, what a horrid error message. :( Guess it could > be worse - > I wrote a program in my youth that irritated people > in the office > trying to use it by complaining, "Something went > wrong." > > > C:/RUBY/lib/ruby/1.7/i386-mswin32/RUDL.so > (LoadError) > > from framerate_test.rb:5 > > > > I guess there might be a difference between RUBY > and > > ruby from a now win32 perspective and that may be > > causing problems. Anyone suceeded in getting RUDL > to > > work? > > I have RUDL V0.6 running with: > ruby 1.6.6 (2001-12-26) [i586-mswin32] > > Note that RUDL is packaged with a number of .dlls... > For me they unzipped into rudl-0.6/dll... They > include > 04/05/2001 05:24p 169,443 jpeg.dll > 04/05/2001 05:24p 94,720 libpng1.dll > 11/08/2001 09:31a 225,280 SDL.dll > 01/26/2002 01:40p 90,112 SDL_gfx.dll > 12/18/2001 12:53p 36,864 > SDL_image.dll > 12/18/2001 12:53p 258,048 > SDL_mixer.dll > 12/18/2001 12:53p 172,032 SDL_ttf.dll > 11/11/2001 01:38a 204,800 smpeg.dll > 07/27/2000 12:13a 53,760 zlib.dll > ...and will need to be somewhere in your Windows > executable > search path... > > > > Thanks > > Ramesh > > Hope this helps, > > Bill > > > > ===== Rameshsharma Ramloll PhD Assistive Technology & Neuroscience Research CenterNational Rehabilitation Hospital 102 Irving St., NW Washington, DC 20010 202-877-1932 phone ext 1935 202-723-0628 fax www.ramloll.com