From: Osuka Adartse <rocioestradacastaneda@...>
Date: 2004-02-06T11:46:38+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-serialport on Win32

Mauricio Fern�ndez wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 09:55:04PM +0900, Stephan K�mper wrote:
> 
>>Did that too. Up to running "make install" in the ruby directory 
>>everything went fine.
>>Anyway, I apparently made a mistake (I think) since I have to set some 
>>include paths explicitly, since otherwise neither 'mkmf' nor 'rbconfig' 
>>are found. Any ideas? Is there anything special to running 'make 
>>install' on MinGW that I missed?
> 
> 
> I don't know if that's the reason, but I was running this all in MSYS
> (just to keep it completely separated from cygwin so that I wouldn't run 
> the wrong ruby binary). I only remember setting the PATH to
> $prefix/bin/ruby ($prefix being where Ruby was installed).
> 
> 
>>I assume you're running these inside the ruby-serialport directory.
>>Doing this I get:
>>
>>$ <path_to_ruby>/ruby.exe -I <path_to_ruby>/lib -I <path_to_ruby> 
>>extconf.rb
>>checking for OS... mingw
>>checking for termios.h... no
> 
> 
> This might be included in MSYS, in case you haven't installed it
> already. It should be there since the machine I tested this on had no
> other dev. tools (except cygwin's env. which was completely separated)
> and I had no problem compiling this AFAIR.
> 
No, stock mingw/msys/msysdtk doesn't include termios.h, so it'll fail to 
compile, exactly as above.