Installing Gems on Windows
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From: Augusto Esteves on 28 Dec 2009 21:00 Phillip Gawlowski wrote: > The MinGW compiler used by ruby needs to know where the *header* files > are to get them. > > My guess is that you need the source for libnfc, and add their path to > your your %path% environment variable (if only temporarily), by doing > something like "set path = %path%;C:\Path\To\Header\Files", and then > "gem install". > > Mind, this doesn't guarantee, at all, that your gem will work. Or even > that the libnfc you have works (the lib has to be compiled for windows, > with a compiler compatible to MinGW32's gcc3.4 to be usable by Ruby), > *and* the header files have to be usable for Windows, too. > > Linux and Windows platforms are *not* compatible to each other, so > unless you know your way around C, and can fix the errors gcc/gem hands > you, you'll either have to fix the errors yourself, or lobby the > libnfc/nfc-gem maintainers to fix the issue (if, indeed, this is an > issue for them in the first place). I do have the binaries for Windows, the problem is where to put them in order for the RubyGem installer to detect them. By running c:\gem install nfc I get, amongst other things: checking for libnfc/libnfc.h in /opt/local/include,/opt/local/include,/usr/local /include,C:/Ruby19/include,/usr/include... no libnfc is missing. please install libnfc: http://libnfc.org/ I can trick this process by creating a folder libnfc inside C:/Ruby19/include, and then put the libnfc.h there (as the rest of the files). Doing that I get: checking for libnfc/libnfc.h in /opt/local/include,/opt/local/include,/usr/local /include,C:/Ruby19/include,/usr/include... yes checking for nfc_connect() in -lnfc... no libnfc is missing. please install libnfc: http://libnfc.org/ So basically I need to figure out where everything goes, regarding the libnfc binary files. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
From: Phillip Gawlowski on 28 Dec 2009 21:22 On 29.12.2009 03:00, Augusto Esteves wrote: > checking for nfc_connect() in -lnfc... no > > libnfc is missing. please install libnfc: http://libnfc.org/ > > So basically I need to figure out where everything goes, regarding the > libnfc binary files. I'd try putting the libnfc-binary into your %PATH% somewhere, or at least c:\Ruby\lib\.. since that is, probably, where the compiler is looking. It's pretty much trial and error for both of us here. :| -- Phillip Gawlowski
From: Arrumaco on 29 Dec 2009 14:24 On Dec 28, 10:00 pm, Augusto Esteves <augusto...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Phillip Gawlowski wrote: > > The MinGW compiler used by ruby needs to know where the *header* files > > are to get them. > > > My guess is that you need the source for libnfc, and add their path to > > your your %path% environment variable (if only temporarily), by doing > > something like "set path = %path%;C:\Path\To\Header\Files", and then > > "gem install". > > > Mind, this doesn't guarantee, at all, that your gem will work. Or even > > that the libnfc you have works (the lib has to be compiled for windows, > > with a compiler compatible to MinGW32's gcc3.4 to be usable by Ruby), > > *and* the header files have to be usable for Windows, too. > > > Linux and Windows platforms are *not* compatible to each other, so > > unless you know your way around C, and can fix the errors gcc/gem hands > > you, you'll either have to fix the errors yourself, or lobby the > > libnfc/nfc-gem maintainers to fix the issue (if, indeed, this is an > > issue for them in the first place). > > I do have the binaries for Windows, the problem is where to put them in > order for the RubyGem installer to detect them. By running c:\gem > install nfc I get, amongst other things: > > checking for libnfc/libnfc.h in > /opt/local/include,/opt/local/include,/usr/local > /include,C:/Ruby19/include,/usr/include... no > > libnfc is missing. please install libnfc:http://libnfc.org/ > > I can trick this process by creating a folder libnfc inside > C:/Ruby19/include, and then put the libnfc.h there (as the rest of the > files). Doing that I get: > > checking for libnfc/libnfc.h in > /opt/local/include,/opt/local/include,/usr/local > /include,C:/Ruby19/include,/usr/include... yes > > checking for nfc_connect() in -lnfc... no > > libnfc is missing. please install libnfc:http://libnfc.org/ > > So basically I need to figure out where everything goes, regarding the > libnfc binary files. > > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - Try install the Windows components connected as "Administrator". Is useless a user with the administrator role.
From: Augusto Esteves on 29 Dec 2009 18:09 Arrumaco wrote: > On Dec 28, 10:00�pm, Augusto Esteves <augusto...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> > that the libnfc you have works (the lib has to be compiled for windows, >> order for the RubyGem installer to detect them. By running c:\gem >> files). Doing that I get: >> libnfc binary files. >> >> -- >> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.- Hide quoted text - >> >> - Show quoted text - > > Try install the Windows components connected as "Administrator". Is > useless a user with the administrator role. I'm using Windows XP SP3 :/ -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
From: Phillip Gawlowski on 30 Dec 2009 01:39
On 30.12.2009 00:09, Augusto Esteves wrote: >> Try install the Windows components connected as "Administrator". Is >> useless a user with the administrator role. > > I'm using Windows XP SP3 :/ Ruby and the devkit need admin rights only on installation, anyway. -- Phillip Gawlowski |