# How to compile Ruby gtk with ruby 1.9

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-compile-ruby-gtk-with-ruby-1-9/193784>\
**Category:** Ruby-Gnome 2\
**Created:** [August 24, 2010, 10:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-compile-ruby-gtk-with-ruby-1-9/193784 "2010-08-24T10:48:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![sankar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@sankar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sankar)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 10:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-compile-ruby-gtk-with-ruby-1-9/193784/1 "2010-08-24T10:48:41Z")

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Hi  
i am completely new to ruby and just started learning. i have picked up  
ruby gtk binding for my gui needs. i am not a c programming guru so i am  
having a lot of problem compiling ruby gtk. The things that i have  
done—

1. Downloaded ruby 1.9 (rubyinstaller-1.9.1-p378)

2. Downloaded ruby-gtk2-0.19.4

3. Gtkmm development package 2.20.1

4. Tdm mingw Gcc 4.5

5. In msys executed ruby extconf.rb

6. Run Make

## symbol errors and at the last i get the report

## SUCCEEDED: glib FAILED: gdkpixbuf pango atk gtk

I am getting this kind of errors like

c:\ruby-gtk2-0.19.4\gtk\src/rbgtkwindowgroup.c:27: undefined reference  
to `rbgob  
j\_instance\_from\_ruby\_object’

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                  Please can anybody help me. Please guide me to

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build the gtk binding of ruby. Thanks in advance.

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                                            with regards.........
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**Author:** ![sankar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@sankar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sankar)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 10:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-compile-ruby-gtk-with-ruby-1-9/193784/2 "2010-08-26T10:44:12Z")

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Hello Shankr, looks like you are using Windows. If you are using Ubuntu  
I can help.

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**Author:** ![sankar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@sankar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sankar)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 11:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-compile-ruby-gtk-with-ruby-1-9/193784/3 "2010-08-26T11:04:48Z")

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Hi

There are many difference in my case(ruby 1.9.1 rumix, ruby gnome2  
0.19.4, MinGW gcc 4.4.0 etc),  
but following URL may show some hints for you.  
I refer [2009-03-21](http://d.hatena.ne.jp/luna_8bit/20090321).

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Sankar Bose