Compatibility Issues?

Desktop wxRuby
1

I’m running Ruby 1.9.1 (Win32) and I installed the
wxruby-1.9.10-x86-mswin32-60 gem.

But when I try to run a script with it, I get an error, “This
application has failed to start because msvcrt-ruby18.dll was not
found.”

I also get this output:

C:/Program
Files/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/wxruby-1.9.10-x86-mswin32-60/lib/wx.rb:12:in
require': 126: The specified module could not be found. - C:/Program Files/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/wxruby-1.9.10-x86-mswin32-60/lib/wxruby2.so (LoadError) from C:/Program Files/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/wxruby-1.9.10-x86-mswin32-60/lib/wx.rb:12:in<top (required)>’
from HelloWorld.rb:2:in require' from HelloWorld.rb:2:in’

I assume that it’s looking for a legacy library from 1.8.x, how can I
fix this?

2

Hi

Peter Wu wrote:

I’m running Ruby 1.9.1 (Win32) and I installed the
wxruby-1.9.10-x86-mswin32-60 gem.

Any binary gem compiled for Ruby 1.8 won’t work with Ruby 1.9.

There’s various ways you can get started using wxRuby with Ruby 1.9 on
Windows; see the comments on this tracker item:

http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=23860&group_id=35&atid=218

alex

3

Alex F. wrote:

Any binary gem compiled for Ruby 1.8 won’t work with Ruby 1.9.

There’s various ways you can get started using wxRuby with Ruby 1.9 on
Windows; see the comments on this tracker item:

http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=23860&group_id=35&atid=218

So pretty much if I want wxRuby with my currently installed binaries I’m
going to have to compile my own from source, is that right?

I suspected as much, though I was hoping that I wouldn’t have to.

4

Peter Wu wrote:

So pretty much if I want wxRuby with my currently installed binaries I’m
going to have to compile my own from source, is that right?

No; as it says, you could first try installing the mingw-ruby19 gem onto
the mswin build. Download the gem manually then do gem install --force

I haven’t tried this with 1.9, but it works with 1.8. It’s probably not
recommended for production use.

I suspected as much, though I was hoping that I wouldn’t have to.

You may find this thread useful:

http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/wxruby-development/2009-January/001490.html

I don’t know if these problems were ever resolved.

Since the main ruby distribution for Windows is moving over to MingW,
fixing support for MSVC builds with Ruby 1.9 hasn’t been a high
priority. We’ll happily integrate any needed fixes though.

a

5

Hi,

2009/2/15 Alex F. [email protected]:

I haven’t tried this with 1.9, but it works with 1.8. It’s probably not
recommended for production use.

I’ve been able to install the mingw-ruby19 gem onto the ruby-1.9.1-p0
mswin build (from
ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/binaries/mswin32/ruby-1.9.1-p0-i386-mswin32.zip).
But running a wxruby sample causes a crash.

I suspected as much, though I was hoping that I wouldn’t have to.

You may find this thread useful:

http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/wxruby-development/2009-January/001490.html

I don’t know if these problems were ever resolved.

wxRuby still does not build yet with MSVC for ruby-1.9.1.

Chauk-Mean.