From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2002-12-04T14:40:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Newbie: installing RUDL problem

Hi,

From: "Pedro Estrada" <pcestrada@hotmail.com>

> I'm diving into Ruby and trying out RUDL. I used the Ruby173-6.exe 'one
> click install' for windows to set up Ruby. I then installed RUDL, and tried
> the samples. They failed with an error of missing mswin32-ruby17.dll. My
> Ruby173-6 distro doesn't have that dll, it has msvcrt-ruby17.dll instead. I
> removed the 173-6 install and tried the Ruby172-1 install and that one
> contained the mswin32-ruby17.dll that RUDL needs. My question why the name
> change in the dll, I didn't see it mentioned the release notes?

I don't know the reason for the dll name change but recently in
[ruby-talk:57001] Martin Stannard gave a URL that had many versions
of RUDL built for the various dlls...
( http://froukepc.dhs.org/rudl/download/binary/ )


Hope this helps,

Bill