# Does anyone have Ruby 1.9 64b for Windows working? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [August 2, 2009, 7:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-anyone-have-ruby-1-9-64b-for-windows-working/173099 "2009-08-02T19:42:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nicken](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@nicken](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nicken)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2009, 7:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-anyone-have-ruby-1-9-64b-for-windows-working/173099/1 "2009-08-02T19:42:58Z")
The “one click installer” is great, but the Ruby website provides no such installer for Ruby 1.9 64b on Windows. There is an old Ruby 1.9.1-p0 64b Windows binary available on [Index of /ruby/mswin32/en](http://www.garbagecollect.jp/ruby/mswin32/en/), but it hasn’t been updated since January, and it does not come with the necessary libraries (like zlib). Has anyone here had success with this without having to compile everything from scratch? How did you do it? And if the only way to get this platform working is by compiling from scratch, what’s the best way to do that? Can it be done with Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition? It sure would be nice if Ruby 1.9 on Win64 were a “first class” ruby platform… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![nicken](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@nicken](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nicken)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2009, 10:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-anyone-have-ruby-1-9-64b-for-windows-working/173099/2 "2009-08-02T22:17:27Z")
2009/8/2 Nick B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) > ## It sure would be nice if Ruby 1.9 on Win64 were a “first class” ruby platform… ☹ > > Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/). why don’t you switch to a Unix/Linux based operating system? It saves you much time and trouble and gives you more fun at developing programs. All I have to do to compile the latest ruby source is to type this: $ svn update $ make $ sudo make install That’s all. -Thomas – Thomas P. removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > **[Google Sites: Sign-in](https://accounts.google.com/v3/signin/identifier?dsh=S620820767%3A1688215231590083&continue=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fsite%2Fsites%2Fsystem%2Ferrors%2FWebspaceNotFound%3Fpath%3D%2Fthopre%2F&followup=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fsite%2Fsites%2Fsystem%2Ferrors%2FWebspaceNotFound%3Fpath%3D%2Fthopre%2F&ifkv=AeDOFXh02uKbsw3nSUf-NfdDRL7c8mhihJ98xR335pzJARsfTSfaNyUnrpOeEMc7eCk5NmeMRTuhFw&passive=1209600&service=jotspot&flowName=WebLiteSignIn&flowEntry=ServiceLogin)** > > Access Google Sites with a personal Google account or Google Workspace account (for business use). > **[thopre](https://thopre.wordpress.com/)** > > Entwicklungen für die Bühne des Lebens Pablo Picasso[http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/p/pablo\_picasso.html](http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/p/pablo_picasso.html) - “Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.” ---
**Author:** ![nicken](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@nicken](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nicken)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2009, 10:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-anyone-have-ruby-1-9-64b-for-windows-working/173099/3 "2009-08-02T22:35:01Z")
On Aug 2, 2:43 pm, Nick B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > The “one click installer” is great, but the Ruby website provides no > such installer for Ruby 1.9 64b on Windows. Unless you’re going intereacting with 64bits processes, services or 64bit only libraries, there is no need you use a 64bits version of Ruby. > There is an old Ruby 1.9.1-p0 64b Windows binary available onhttp://www.garbagecollect.jp/ruby/mswin32/en/, but it hasn’t been > updated since January, and it does not come with the necessary libraries > (like zlib). AFAIK for that to work you would require all these binaries IN 64bits version. > Has anyone here had success with this without having to compile > everything from scratch? How did you do it? You NEED to build everything from scratch to avoid memory allocation issues due different version of C Runtime libraries (CRT mismatch). > And if the only way to get this platform working is by compiling from > scratch, what’s the best way to do that? Can it be done with Visual C++ > 2008 Express Edition? Yes, with lot of sweat and huge amount of caffeine. Last time took me build everything used by Ruby (zlib, readline and others) 3 or 4 days of work. > It sure would be nice if Ruby 1.9 on Win64 were a “first class” ruby > platform… ☹ As I commented on another thread: [http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse\_thread/thread/bab0c58e2e4b1b84#](http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_thread/thread/bab0c58e2e4b1b84#) You should ask the maintainer of these binaries (which is the developer at garbagecollect website) [http://www.garbagecollect.jp/ruby/mswin32/en/](http://www.garbagecollect.jp/ruby/mswin32/en/) ---
**Author:** ![nicken](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@nicken](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nicken)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 3:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-anyone-have-ruby-1-9-64b-for-windows-working/173099/4 "2009-08-03T03:51:44Z")
> All I have to do to compile the latest ruby source is to type this: > > $ svn update > $ make > $ sudo make install Speed is important for this project, and it will have to run on Windows at some point. But for now, I can do some of the work on Linux. So: I checked out [http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/trunk](http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/trunk). But even on Linux, it is not as simple as running “make.” Usually, when installing from source, I find a configure script that sets everything up for make. No such script was delivered with with the subversion checkout of ruby. What am I missing to make the process as simple as you describe above? Something with autoconf, maybe? System: Ubuntu 9.04 $ svn update At revision 24359. $ make make: \*\*\* No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. $ ./configure -bash: ./configure: No such file or directory ---
**Author:** ![nicken](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@nicken](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nicken)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 5:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-anyone-have-ruby-1-9-64b-for-windows-working/173099/5 "2009-08-03T05:06:47Z")
> Something with autoconf, maybe? Answered my own question. The build process is: svn co … autoconf ./configure make sudo make install ---
**Author:** ![nicken](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@nicken](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nicken)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 3:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-anyone-have-ruby-1-9-64b-for-windows-working/173099/6 "2009-08-03T03:53:26Z")
Do people not understand that in this day in age, not all software developers get to pick the operating systems on which their applications will run? ---
**Author:** ![nicken](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@nicken](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nicken)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 5:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-anyone-have-ruby-1-9-64b-for-windows-working/173099/7 "2009-08-03T05:10:42Z")
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 9:51 PM, Nick B.[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Linux, it is not as simple as running “make.” Usually, when installing > make: \*\*\* No targets specified and no makefile found. Â Stop. > $ ./configure > -bash: ./configure: No such file or directory I’m not positive, but I think if you run `autoconf` in the checkout directory it will generate the configure script. Best, Michael G.