# Help with rdoc stdlib on windows 2000 **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [December 20, 2006, 12:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-rdoc-stdlib-on-windows-2000/79870 "2006-12-20T00:32:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tesla](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/7cd45c/32.png) [@tesla](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tesla)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 12:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-rdoc-stdlib-on-windows-2000/79870/1 "2006-12-20T00:32:36Z")
Hi, I can’t get any output using rdoc on the stdlib. I am using windows 2000 and ruby 1.8.4. from the one-click installer. I have tried: rdoc c:\ruby\lib -f html --op f:\temp\rubydocs rdoc c:\ruby\lib -f html -o f:\temp\rubydocs and rdoc c:\ruby\lib -f chm -o f:\temp\rubydocs --op rubydocs.chm With nothing but a long wait to show for the effort. Any help would be appreciated. thx -Tesla ---
**Author:** ![tesla](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/7cd45c/32.png) [@tesla](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tesla)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 6:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-rdoc-stdlib-on-windows-2000/79870/2 "2006-12-20T18:44:00Z")
tesla wrote: > I appears to be a bug. Rdoc does not recognize any paths other than root. Given a Drive letter in Windows or Linux it fails. So you can’t run on one disk and write to another. Tesla ---
**Author:** ![tesla](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/7cd45c/32.png) [@tesla](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tesla)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 7:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-rdoc-stdlib-on-windows-2000/79870/3 "2006-12-20T19:26:57Z")
tesla wrote: > Here’s the error code Generating HTML… c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/ftools.rb:218:in `mkdir': Invalid argument - files/c: (Errn o::EINVAL) from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/ftools.rb:218:in`makedirs’ from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/ftools.rb:211:in `makedirs' from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/ftools.rb:214:in`makedirs’ from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/ftools.rb:211:in `makedirs' from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/ftools.rb:214:in`makedirs’ from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/ftools.rb:211:in `makedirs' from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/ftools.rb:214:in`makedirs’ from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/ftools.rb:211:in `makedirs' from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/ftools.rb:214:in`makedirs’ from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/ftools.rb:211:in `makedirs' from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/generators/html_generator.rb:1285:in`gen \_into’ from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/generators/html\_generator.rb:1282:in `gen _into' from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/generators/html_generator.rb:1269:in`gen erate\_html’ from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/generators/html\_generator.rb:1190:in `gen erate' from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/rdoc.rb:263:in`document’ from c:/ruby/bin/rdoc.bat:70 ---
**Author:** ![tesla](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/7cd45c/32.png) [@tesla](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tesla)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 8:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-rdoc-stdlib-on-windows-2000/79870/4 "2006-12-20T20:09:24Z")
On Dec 19, 2006, at 06:15, tesla wrote: > rdoc c:\ruby\lib -f chm -o f:\temp\rubydocs --op rubydocs.chm > These won’t give you the stdlib docs since it can’t get RDoc from the > C sources you don’t have. Get a source tarball and build from it. – Eric H. - removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid - [http://blog.segment7.net](http://blog.segment7.net) I LIT YOUR GEM ON FIRE!