On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Karl <threadhead@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Completely removed c:\ruby197 and c:\devkit, also remove all reference
> in system environment PATH.
>
> Installed ruby 1.8.7 with rubyinstaller.org.
>
> Installed devkit following the instruction on the wiki, to the letter.
> Ran .\devkitvars.bat
>
> Did a 'gem install thin --platform=ruby' just to make sure things
> compile... no errors.
>
> Back my source directory: ruby extconf.rb (no errors)
>
> Ran 'make' and I get the exact same error as above.
>
>
> BTW, I do have VS8 Express installed. Is that causing the issue?
>

If is in the path and you can do "cl" and works, then could be.

Please bring this conversation to RubyInstaller group.

> Also, I did a system search for ruby.exe and only one in c:\ruby187 is
> found.
>

It is weird that you're having this problem, and the only possible
root will be Visual C in the path, but that do not explain how thin
installed without issues.

> And I checked my rbconfig.rb (I can past the entire content if that
> helps), all the references I see are to i585-pc-mingw32, mingw32, gcc,
> but
>   CONFIG["RUBY_SO_NAME"] = "msvcrt-ruby18"
>

That is the shared library name, that is not an issue.

>
> So, I'm still where I started.

Please bring this issue to RubyInstaller list where others using
Windows might be able to help you diagnose the issue.

So far, make triggering compilation issues could be associated with VC
or something interfering with your environment.

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Luis Lavena
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