# IronRuby Compiles Broken?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-compiles-broken/151640>\
**Category:** IronRuby\
**Created:** [October 23, 2008, 8:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-compiles-broken/151640 "2008-10-23T20:56:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![tmilker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@tmilker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tmilker)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2008, 8:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-compiles-broken/151640/1 "2008-10-23T20:56:23Z")

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Is the IronRuby tree currently broken for compiles? I have tried  
everything I can think of to get it to build and I just get:

Setting environment for using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 x86 tools.

c:\Users\ted\Desktop\IronRuby\>rake compile  
(in c:/Users/ted/Desktop/IronRuby)  
Read in 17 resources from  
“c:\users\ted\desktop\ironruby\src\microsoft.scripting  
\math\MathResources.resx”  
Writing resource file… Done.  
The command line is too long.  
rake aborted!  
Command failed with status (1): [csc  
/out:"c:\users\ted\desktop\ironruby\bu…]  
c:/Users/ted/Desktop/IronRuby/rakefile:284  
(See full trace by running task with --trace)

c:\Users\ted\Desktop\IronRuby\>

I am running on Vista Ultimate 64bit with Visual Studio 2008  
Professional. I have tried both the 32bit and 64bit command line  
shortcuts and I just cannot get past “The command line is too long.”  
I cannot even figure out which command line is too long. I have tried  
on two different machines(both Vista Ultimate 64bit) with the same  
results.

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**Author:** ![tmilker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@tmilker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tmilker)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2008, 10:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-compiles-broken/151640/2 "2008-10-23T22:57:18Z")

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I got the same errors yesterday. I could build it using visual studio  
though.  
Mine was on vista 32-bit in both powershell and command

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**Author:** ![tmilker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@tmilker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tmilker)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2008, 11:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-compiles-broken/151640/3 "2008-10-23T23:34:13Z")

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On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Ivan Porto C.  
[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> I got the same errors yesterday. I could build it using visual studio  
> though.  
> Mine was on vista 32-bit in both powershell and command

Wow, I sure was overlooking the obvious. I have been fighting this  
since the weekend, trying to figure out what was wrong. I was reading  
your book and have been trying to build with your instructions in the  
first chapter and I totally missed the solution file.

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**Author:** ![tmilker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@tmilker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tmilker)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2008, 11:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-compiles-broken/151640/4 "2008-10-23T23:34:13Z")

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Great to hear somebody is reading it 🙂

Thanks I’ll add it to the first chapter that you can also build it using  
visual studio. I guess by the time ironruby releases I’ll just replace  
that  
section with a how to download the binaries 😉