I saw the latest benchmark on rubyinstaller(mingw) which is much faster
than normal mswin32 ruby. So, I decided to try it with ruby-gnome2.
I only compile the ruby-gtk2-0.19.1 and it works quite well with some
glitch. Mostly is the Makefile doesn’t have proper include path or
library link path.
The only problem that seems to be a bug is the gtk Makefile at its LIBS:
LIBS = $(LIBRUBYARG_SHARED) -lgthread-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lintl
-lgtk-win32-2.0 -lgdk-win32-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgio-2.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0
-lpangowin32-1.0 -lgdi32 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lcairo
-lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lintl -lcairo -lruby-cairo
-lruby-cairo -lruby-glib2 -lruby-glib2 -lruby-pango -lruby-pango
-lruby-gtk2 -lruby-gtk2 -lshell32 -lws2_32
It link to ruby-gtk2 but at this time, we haven’t compile the
libruby-gtk2.a yet. So, I have to remove those 2 -lruby-gtk2 -lruby-gtk2
then it can compile successfully. I test the gtk-demo and it works well.
Have anyone seen this issue on the gtk Makefile?
Here, I attached my compilation process, hopefull help those who want to
have ruby gnome work with the latest rubyinstaller (Or anyone want to
add it into the ruby gnome wiki 
or create a windows installer?
Grab require library:
- Grab the ruby and ruby development kit from:
Downloads - Install ruby at c:\ruby and extract the development kit to c:\ruby as
well - Add c:\ruby\bin to windows PATH
- Grab gtk development library from:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/glade3/3.6/glade3-3.6.7-with-GTK+.exe - Install it to c:\gtk
- Add c:\gtk\bin to windows PATH
Compile Glib
extract ruby-gtk2-0.19.1 to any path like c:\ruby-gtk
cd glib
ruby extconf.rb
Need to modify the src/Makefile, add include path
INCFLAGS = -I. -I. -IC:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-mingw32 -I.
-IC:/gtk/include
- the -I c:/gtk/include is added by hand
make
make install
Get rcairo
Get from: http://cairographics.org/releases/rcairo-1.8.0.tar.gz
Compile it by doing:
ruby extconf.rb --with-pkg-config=c:\gtk\bin\pkg-config.exe
Modify Makefile:
INCFLAGS = -I. -I. -IC:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-mingw32 -I.
-Ic:/gtk/include/cairo
LIBPATH = -L. -L$(libdir) -Lc:/gtk/lib
Then run:
make
make install
Set cairo path(to the path you extract it)
set CAIRO_PATH=C:\rcairo-1.8.0\src
Compile ATK
cd atk
ruby extconf.rb
make
make install
Compile pango
cd pango
ruby extconf.rb
Modify Makefile:
LIBPATH = -L. -L$(libdir) -LC:/rcairo-1.8.0/src
make
make install
Compile gtk2
cd gtk2
ruby extconf.rb
Modify Makefile
LIBPATH = -L. -L$(libdir) -LC:/Ruby/rbgtk/rcairo-1.8.0/src
**remove -lruby-gtk2 from the LIBS
LIBS = $(LIBRUBYARG_SHARED) -lgthread-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lintl
-lgtk-win32-2.0 -lgdk-win32-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgio-2.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0
-lpangowin32-1.0 -lgdi32 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lcairo
-lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lintl -lcairo -lruby-cairo
-lruby-cairo -lruby-glib2 -lruby-glib2 -lruby-pango -lruby-pango
-lshell32 -lws2_32
make
make install
The compilation process is not so smooth. If we able to make a
environment include path and the library path, then we can just run the
extconf.rb at the top directory of the ruby-gtk2-0.19.1 and do make &&
make install (still we need to manually remove the -lruby-gtk2 from the
gtk Makefile)