comp.lang.ruby

Joey Gibson

12/2/2003 12:05:00 PM

On 12/1/2003 10:44 PM, Austin Ziegler wrote:

>Hi, folks:
>
>I am trying to build Ruby from CVS using the free Visual Studio version of
>C++ pointed out by Nathaniel a couple of weeks ago (I've gotten further with
>this than I did with MSYS).
>
>Unfortunately, it can't find lib.exe at some point. It appears that this is
>used in place of ar, but I'm not sure why it can't find it. There is a
>version of lib.exe in the Windows SDK directory under win64, but I'm not
>sure if that's "safe" to use.
>
>

I didn't install the free version, but I have built Ruby 1.8.x using VC7
which ships with the .NET SDK, which I _think_ is roundabout the same
thing. I just did a 'which' and I see that lib.exe lives in 'C:\Program
Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET\VC7\BIN\lib.exe' on my system. There
is a .bat file called vcvars32.bat in that same directory that, when
run, will setup paths, includes, etc, to work properly.Give that a go
and see what happens. BTW, the cl version I have is

Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 13.00.9466 for 80x86
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1984-2001. All rights reserved.

Joey

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