# Building Ruby with Visual Studio 2005

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/building-ruby-with-visual-studio-2005/158020>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [January 18, 2009, 2:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/building-ruby-with-visual-studio-2005/158020 "2009-01-18T02:21:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Time\_W](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/838e76/32.png) [@Time\_W](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Time_W)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 2:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/building-ruby-with-visual-studio-2005/158020/1 "2009-01-18T02:21:16Z")

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Hello,

I tried to build Ruby on Windows with Visual Studio 2005. I followed  
instructions in win32/README.win32.

I started Visual Studio.  
I clicked on “Tools” and “Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt” to get  
everything in PATH.  
I started win32\configure.bat.  
And I got this error:  
‘find’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable  
program or batch file.  
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: ‘cl’ : return code ‘0xff’  
Stop.

Am I supposed to install find or something ?

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**Author:** ![Time\_W](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/838e76/32.png) [@Time\_W](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Time_W)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 9:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/building-ruby-with-visual-studio-2005/158020/2 "2009-01-18T09:53:56Z")

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2009/1/18 Time W. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)

> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: ‘cl’ : return code ‘0xff’  
> Stop.
> 
> Am I supposed to install find or something ?

Actually, find.exe is shipped with Windows. I was using a very small  
Windows  
distribution from which it was removed.