# Help building Ruby 1.9 on Windows **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [April 5, 2007, 11:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-building-ruby-1-9-on-windows/91243 "2007-04-05T23:00:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![vtphysguy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/77aa72/32.png) [@vtphysguy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vtphysguy)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 11:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-building-ruby-1-9-on-windows/91243/1 "2007-04-05T23:00:40Z")
I am looking for some advice on building Ruby 1.9 on windows. Following the instructions found in this thread [http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/184380](http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/184380), I have managed to get pretty far but not far enough. I have Visual Studio 2005 Professional, and I am only building 1.9 to test a very small portion of it (some recent changes to Net::HTTP). Therefore, I don’t think binary compatibility with extensions matters much. I’ve heard that is a problem between the various compilers. Anyways, when I build, I get errors such as: ``` cl -nologo -MD -Zi -O2b2xty- -DRUBY_EXPORT -I. ``` -Ic:/ruby-src/ruby -Ic:/ruby-src/ruby/missing -D\_CRT\_SECURE\_NO\_DEPRECATE -D \_CRT\_NONSTDC\_NO\_DEPRECATE -c -Tcc:/ruby-src/ruby/blockinlining.c blockinlining.c C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /C c:\ruby-src\ruby\win32\rm.bat ruby.exe ruby c:/ruby-src/ruby/tool/insns2vm.rb –srcdir=“c:/ruby-src/ruby” ‘ruby’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. NMAKE : fatal error U1077: ‘ruby’ : return code ‘0x1’ Stop. This seems to say I need to have ruby built already to build ruby. Is that true or can anyone offer suggestions? Thanks! Justin ---
**Author:** ![vtphysguy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/77aa72/32.png) [@vtphysguy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vtphysguy)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 2:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-building-ruby-1-9-on-windows/91243/2 "2007-04-06T02:04:58Z")
Hello, In message “Help building Ruby 1.9 on Windows” on Apr.06,2007 05:59:49, [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: | This seems to say I need to have ruby built already to build ruby. Is that | true or can anyone offer suggestions? Yes, you are right. When building ruby 1.9 from Subversion repository, you need built ruby such as 1.8. Regards, ---
**Author:** ![vtphysguy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/77aa72/32.png) [@vtphysguy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vtphysguy)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 4:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-building-ruby-1-9-on-windows/91243/3 "2007-04-06T16:42:28Z")
On Apr 5, 3:59 pm, “Justin B.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Professional, and I am only building 1.9 to test a very small portion of it > (some recent changes to Net::HTTP). Therefore, I don’t think binary > compatibility with extensions matters much. I’ve heard that is a problem > between the various compilers. I haven’t had a chance to try to build from source, but I do know that you can get 1.9 nightly binaries for Windows from [Download Ruby](http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/). Maybe that will suffice? Or do you mean that you need to modify the source yourself? Jeff ---
**Author:** ![vtphysguy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/77aa72/32.png) [@vtphysguy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vtphysguy)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 4:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-building-ruby-1-9-on-windows/91243/4 "2007-04-06T16:55:47Z")
Jeff schrieb: > I haven’t had a chance to try to build from source, but I do know that > you can get 1.9 nightly binaries for Windows from [Download Ruby](http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/). Where are “nightly binaries for Windows”? The only binary for Windows is “ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/binaries/mswin32/ruby-1.9.0-20060415-i386-mswin32.zip”, which is an old one. Wolfgang Nádasi-Donner ---
**Author:** ![vtphysguy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/77aa72/32.png) [@vtphysguy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vtphysguy)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2007, 6:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-building-ruby-1-9-on-windows/91243/5 "2007-04-07T06:23:53Z")
On Apr 6, 9:55 am, Wolfgang Nádasi-Donner [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Where are “nightly binaries for Windows”? The only binary for Windows is > “ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/binaries/mswin32/ruby-1.9.0-20060415…”, > which is an old one. > > Wolfgang Nádasi-Donner Sorry, you’re right, I guess I misunderstood their definition of “development” build. Jeff ---
**Author:** ![vtphysguy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/77aa72/32.png) [@vtphysguy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vtphysguy)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 5:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-building-ruby-1-9-on-windows/91243/6 "2007-04-06T17:38:25Z")
On 4/6/07, Wolfgang Nádasi-Donner [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Where are “nightly binaries for Windows”? The only binary for Windows is > " > ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/binaries/mswin32/ruby-1.9.0-20060415-i386-mswin32.zip > ", > which is an old one. If someone would like to upload a new binary, I’d be really grateful. Justin ---
**Author:** ![vtphysguy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/77aa72/32.png) [@vtphysguy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vtphysguy)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 3:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-building-ruby-1-9-on-windows/91243/7 "2007-04-15T03:09:11Z")
On Apr 5, 1:59 pm, “Justin B.” wrote: > I am looking for some advice on building Ruby 1.9 on windows. Here’s what I did on XP SP2 running under Parallels. - Download and install MSFT Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition (gratis) - Get the Windows Platform SDK - Install Ruby 1.8.x using 1-click Windows Installer - Grab Ruby 1.9 from Subversion - Click through: Start Menu / Platform SDK / Open Build Environment Window / Windows XP 32-bit … / Set Windows XP … Build Environment - In the command window that opens, run “c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\Tools\vsvars32.bat” - win32/configure.bat - nmake Result: C:\dev\ruby\win32\>ruby -v ruby 1.9.0 (2007-04-12 patchlevel 0) [i386-mswin32\_80] ~L