Subject:
Re: [ruby-ffi] need help loading a library
From:
Luis Lavena
Date:
5/4/11 10:20 AM
To:
ruby-ffi@googlegroups.com

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Chuck Remes <cremes.devlist@mac.com> wrote:
>
> On May 2, 2011, at 3:46 PM, Chuck Remes wrote:
>> Luis, I am trying this again right now. I'll let you know how it goes. Thank you for your research!
>
> Luis,
>
> I got this to work. I had to ask in the 0mq irc for some help because I couldn't find libzmq.dll (it's hidden in zeromq/src/.libs after make completes).
>

Ah, I found them because a did a configure with --prefix and then did
a make install :D

>
> Any suggestions on where to stuff those DLL's long term so they are on the PATH? (Or is it %%path%% ?)
>

Normally I have a %HOME%\Tools\bin directory where I throw all the
dlls that I use across projects.

For example I have sqlite3.dll and libmysql.dll there.

Then added Tools\bin to my Path.

PS: Never place files in Windows\system32, just in case if someone
tell you do that, don't :P
-- Luis Lavena AREA 17 - Perfection in design is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but rather when there is nothing more to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry