# Noob: Building Yarv 0.4.0 **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [February 24, 2006, 5:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/noob-building-yarv-0-4-0/72894 "2006-02-24T17:40:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gzoller](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/278dde/32.png) [@gzoller](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gzoller)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 5:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/noob-building-yarv-0-4-0/72894/1 "2006-02-24T17:40:01Z")
Apologies if this is posed in the wrong forum… I’m having problems building yarv 0.4.0 on Linux. I’ve tried building with stable/production ruby release and with ruby 1.9.0 (last night’s snapshot). Here’s the error I’m getting. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated as I’d love to try it out. To build I unpacked the yarv tar.gz file. cd yarv-0.4.0 autoconf ./configure … make Error: compiling Win32API make[1]: Entering directory `/home/gzoller/src/yarv-0.4.0/ext/Win32API' make[1]: Nothing to be done for`all’. make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/gzoller/src/yarv-0.4.0/ext/Win32API' compiling bigdecimal /home/gzoller/src/yarv-0.4.0/lib/mkmf.rb:1137:in`basename’: can’t convert Array into String (TypeError) from /home/gzoller/src/yarv-0.4.0/lib/mkmf.rb:1137:in `block (3 levels) in create_makefile' from /home/gzoller/src/yarv-0.4.0/lib/mkmf.rb:1136:in`each’ from /home/gzoller/src/yarv-0.4.0/lib/mkmf.rb:1136:in `block (2 levels) in create_makefile' from /home/gzoller/src/yarv-0.4.0/lib/mkmf.rb:1131:in`each’ from /home/gzoller/src/yarv-0.4.0/lib/mkmf.rb:1131:in `block in create_makefile' from /home/gzoller/src/yarv-0.4.0/lib/mkmf.rb:1129:in`each’ from /home/gzoller/src/yarv-0.4.0/lib/mkmf.rb:1129:in `create_makefile' from ../.././ext/bigdecimal/extconf.rb:2:in`\’ from ./ext/extmk.rb:138:in `load' from ./ext/extmk.rb:138:in`extmake’ from ./ext/extmk.rb:398:in `block in
' from ./ext/extmk.rb:397:in`each’ from ./ext/extmk.rb:397:in `’ make: \*\*\* [all] Error 1 Thanks! Greg ---
**Author:** ![gzoller](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/278dde/32.png) [@gzoller](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gzoller)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 6:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/noob-building-yarv-0-4-0/72894/2 "2006-02-24T18:25:27Z")
Greg Zoller wrote: > Apologies if this is posed in the wrong forum… > > I’m having problems building yarv 0.4.0 on Linux. > > I’ve tried building with stable/production ruby release and > with ruby 1.9.0 (last night’s snapshot). > > Here’s the error I’m getting. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated > as I’d love to try it out. > > To build I unpacked the yarv tar.gz file. > cd yarv-0.4.0 > autoconf > ./configure … > make Just to make sure you are not running into any strange library clash issues, use the instructions on the YARV page: 1. Untar files 2. mkdir build/ 3. cd yarv-0.4.0; autoconf 4. cd …/build 5. …/yarv-0.4.0/configure –program-suffix=-yarv \ # Or a prefix –prefix=/home/gzoller # Optionally 6. make; make test; make test-all; make benchmark It might (or might not) help you… > Thanks! > Greg E ---
**Author:** ![gzoller](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/278dde/32.png) [@gzoller](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gzoller)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 10:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/noob-building-yarv-0-4-0/72894/3 "2006-02-24T22:02:12Z")
Thanks, E, but I’m still having the same issues. ☹ Anybody else have this problem? Thx, G E. Saynatkari wrote: > Greg Zoller wrote: > > > Apologies if this is posed in the wrong forum… > > > > I’m having problems building yarv 0.4.0 on Linux. > > > > I’ve tried building with stable/production ruby release and > > with ruby 1.9.0 (last night’s snapshot). > > > > Here’s the error I’m getting. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated > > as I’d love to try it out. > > > > To build I unpacked the yarv tar.gz file. > > cd yarv-0.4.0 > > autoconf > > ./configure … > > make > > Just to make sure you are not running into any strange > library clash issues, use the instructions on the YARV > page: > > 1. Untar files > 2. mkdir build/ > 3. cd yarv-0.4.0; autoconf > 4. cd …/build > 5. …/yarv-0.4.0/configure > –program-suffix=-yarv \ # Or a prefix > –prefix=/home/gzoller # Optionally > 6. make; make test; make test-all; make benchmark > > It might (or might not) help you… > > > Thanks! > > Greg > > E ---
**Author:** ![gzoller](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/278dde/32.png) [@gzoller](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gzoller)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 11:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/noob-building-yarv-0-4-0/72894/4 "2006-02-24T23:49:50Z")
Greg Zoller wrote: > Thanks, E, but I’m still having the same issues. ☹ Maybe download the latest snapshot instead, just in case. If it still shows no signs of working, you could try fixing the mkmf file (or generating one with extconf.rb) or building it with a 1.8.x ruby. > Anybody else have this problem? > > Thx, > G > > E. Saynatkari wrote: > > > Greg Zoller wrote: > > > > > Apologies if this is posed in the wrong forum… > > > > > > I’m having problems building yarv 0.4.0 on Linux. > > > > > > I’ve tried building with stable/production ruby release and > > > with ruby 1.9.0 (last night’s snapshot). > > > > > > Here’s the error I’m getting. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated > > > as I’d love to try it out. > > > > > > To build I unpacked the yarv tar.gz file. > > > cd yarv-0.4.0 > > > autoconf > > > ./configure … > > > make > > > > Just to make sure you are not running into any strange > > library clash issues, use the instructions on the YARV > > page: > > > > 1. Untar files > > 2. mkdir build/ > > 3. cd yarv-0.4.0; autoconf > > 4. cd …/build > > 5. …/yarv-0.4.0/configure > > –program-suffix=-yarv \ # Or a prefix > > –prefix=/home/gzoller # Optionally > > 6. make; make test; make test-all; make benchmark > > > > It might (or might not) help you… > > > > > Thanks! > > > Greg E ---
**Author:** ![gzoller](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/278dde/32.png) [@gzoller](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gzoller)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 5:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/noob-building-yarv-0-4-0/72894/5 "2006-02-25T05:12:35Z")
On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 06:02 +0900, Greg Zoller wrote: > Thanks, E, but I’m still having the same issues. ☹ > > Anybody else have this problem? Yes. There are big changes going on over there right now I think. A quick (and dirty) workaround I found was: - change yarv/lib/mkmf.rb, line 1136, “files.flatten.each |f|” - Run make with -i(gnore errors) switch: - Manually copy ruby-yarv (or whatever) binary to target bin dir. This is nasty stuff, but the result does seem to work quite well, although it might be missing a few standard libraries… The actual problem seemed tantalisingly close at one point but with it being 4am I gave up. (This was with the SVN trunk, which I think is the same as the latest snapshot, r475, though I had the same problem on the 0.4.0 version too). ---
**Author:** ![gzoller](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/278dde/32.png) [@gzoller](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gzoller)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 4:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/noob-building-yarv-0-4-0/72894/6 "2006-02-25T16:05:20Z")
> > > > > “R” == Ross B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) writes: R\> (This was with the SVN trunk, which I think is the same as the latest R\> snapshot, r475, though I had the same problem on the 0.4.0 version too). Well with yarv-r475 - I can build it with ruby 1.9.0 (2006-02-24) [i686-linux] - with ruby 1.9.0 (2006-02-24) [x86\_64-linux] uln% make gcc -g -O2 -DRUBY\_EXPORT -I. -I…/yarv-r475 -c …/yarv-r475/array.c […] gcc main.o libruby-yarv-static.a -lpthread -ldl -lcrypt -lm -o miniruby -g -O2 -DRUBY\_EXPORT -rdynamic -Wl,-export-dynamic rbconfig.rb updated /home/ts/ruby/tmp/yarv-r475/lib/fileutils.rb:1503:in `module_eval': syntax error, unexpected $end, expecting kEND (SyntaxError) from /home/ts/ruby/tmp/yarv-r475/lib/fileutils.rb:1503:in `block (1 levels) in module:Verbose’ from /home/ts/ruby/tmp/yarv-r475/lib/fileutils.rb:1502:in `each' from /home/ts/ruby/tmp/yarv-r475/lib/fileutils.rb:1502:in `module:Verbose’ from /home/ts/ruby/tmp/yarv-r475/lib/fileutils.rb:1498:in `' from /home/ts/ruby/tmp/yarv-r475/lib/fileutils.rb:85:in `\’ from /home/ts/ruby/tmp/yarv-r475/lib/mkmf.rb:5:in `require' from /home/ts/ruby/tmp/yarv-r475/lib/mkmf.rb:5:in `\’ from …/yarv-r475/ext/extmk.rb:32:in `require' from ../yarv-r475/ext/extmk.rb:32:in `’ make: \*\*\* [all] Error 1 uln% without the optimisation : uln% ~/local/yarv/bin/ruby-yarv -rsocket -ve ‘p Socket’ ruby 2.0.0 (Base: Ruby 1.9.0 2006-02-14) [x86\_64-linux] YARVCore 0.4.0 Rev: 475 (2006-02-23) [opts:] Socket uln% Guy Decoux