From: Safran von Twesla <me@...>
Date: 2004-01-28T06:39:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Editor

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 03:13:51 +0900, Osuka Adartse
<rocioestradacastaneda@prodigy.net.mx> wrote:


>regarding GD lib, I'm on windows haven't got a problem using it, are you 
>using the pragprog ruby install? mingw? I use the later, didn't tried 
>compiling gd myself, got the binary from the /binaries/mingw|mswin/ext 
>folder in a mirror
>for mingw
>http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/languages/ruby/binaries/mingw/1.8/ext/ruby-GD-0.7.4-i386-mingw32-1.8.tar.gz
>
>for mswin didn't see one, but most probably the mingw would work with 
>the mswin install(but I could be wrong), just unpack the GD.so to the 
>right dir i.e. ruby/lib/1.8/i386-msvcrt , the i386-msvcrt could be 
>different on mswin install, just look where the other *.so are.
>
>and thats if using ruby-GD, see:
>http://raa.ruby-lang.org/cat.rhtml?category_major=Library;category_minor=Graphics


He inserted  GD.so in C:\ruby\lib\ruby\1.8\i386-mswin32 and run his
Script again... here the error:

test.rb:62: undefined method `colorAllocate' for
#<GD::Image:(100x100)> (NoMethodError)

Strange, isn't it?

Thx

SvT