# Ocra: "Failed to create directory" #2

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ocra-failed-to-create-directory-2/178670>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [November 9, 2009, 9:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ocra-failed-to-create-directory-2/178670 "2009-11-09T09:28:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![zloy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/b4bc9f/32.png) [@zloy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/zloy)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 9:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ocra-failed-to-create-directory-2/178670/1 "2009-11-09T09:28:11Z")

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Hi,  
I ran ocra hello.rb which has the only line puts “hello world!” and it  
created hello.exe with no complaints. But I get the error “Failed to  
create directory ‘C:\DOCUME~1\Sony\LOCALS~1\Temp\ocr14.tmp\Bin’.”  
running this heelo.exe

ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [i386-mswin32]  
ocra-1.1.2 gem  
gem --version =\> 1.3.4  
win xp prof sp3

I’ve already searched the forum, found posts  
[Ocra: "Failed to create directory" - Ruby - Ruby-Forum](http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/187900#820102) and followed here  
[Ruby on Windows: The OCRA Compiler: Tips, Tricks, and Gotchas](http://rubyonwindows.blogspot.com/2009/05/ocra-compiler-tips-tricks-and-gotchas.html)  
but that didn’t help to resolve the problem

any idea?

ocra output:  
=== Loading script to check dependencies  
hello world!  
=== Building hello.exe  
m src  
a src\hello.rb  
m bin  
a bin\ruby.exe  
a bin\msvcrt-ruby18.dll  
m Bin  
a Bin\zlib1.dll  
m lib  
m lib\ruby  
m lib\ruby\gems  
m lib\ruby\gems\1.8  
m lib\ruby\gems\1.8\specifications  
a lib\ruby\gems\1.8\specifications\ocra-1.1.2.gemspec  
m lib\ruby\site\_ruby  
m lib\ruby\site\_ruby\1.8  
m lib\ruby\site\_ruby\1.8\rubygems  
a lib\ruby\site\_ruby\1.8\rubygems\rubygems\_version.rb  
a lib\ruby\site\_ruby\1.8\rubygems\defaults.rb  
m lib\ruby\1.8  
m lib\ruby\1.8\i386-mswin32  
a lib\ruby\1.8\i386-mswin32\thread.so  
a lib\ruby\1.8\thread.rb  
a lib\ruby\1.8\i386-mswin32\etc.so  
a lib\ruby\1.8\i386-mswin32\rbconfig.rb  
a lib\ruby\site\_ruby\1.8\rubygems\exceptions.rb  
a lib\ruby\site\_ruby\1.8\rubygems\requirement.rb  
a lib\ruby\site\_ruby\1.8\rubygems\version.rb  
a lib\ruby\site\_ruby\1.8\rubygems\dependency.rb  
a lib\ruby\site\_ruby\1.8\rubygems\gem\_path\_searcher.rb  
a lib\ruby\site\_ruby\1.8\rubygems\user\_interaction.rb  
a lib\ruby\site\_ruby\1.8\rubygems\platform.rb  
a lib\ruby\site\_ruby\1.8\rubygems\specification.rb  
a lib\ruby\site\_ruby\1.8\rubygems\source\_index.rb  
a lib\ruby\site\_ruby\1.8\rubygems\builder.rb  
a lib\ruby\1.8\i386-mswin32\stringio.so  
m lib\ruby\1.8\yaml  
a lib\ruby\1.8\yaml\error.rb  
a lib\ruby\1.8\i386-mswin32\syck.so  
a lib\ruby\1.8\yaml\ypath.rb  
a lib\ruby\1.8\yaml\basenode.rb  
a lib\ruby\1.8\yaml\syck.rb  
a lib\ruby\1.8\yaml\tag.rb  
a lib\ruby\1.8\yaml\stream.rb  
a lib\ruby\1.8\yaml\constants.rb  
a lib\ruby\1.8\rational.rb  
m lib\ruby\1.8\date  
a lib\ruby\1.8\date\format.rb  
a lib\ruby\1.8\date.rb  
a lib\ruby\1.8\yaml\rubytypes.rb  
a lib\ruby\1.8\yaml\types.rb  
a lib\ruby\1.8\yaml.rb  
a lib\ruby\1.8\i386-mswin32\Win32API.so  
a lib\ruby\site\_ruby\1.8\rubygems\config\_file.rb  
a lib\ruby\site\_ruby\1.8\rubygems\custom\_require.rb  
a lib\ruby\1.8\fileutils.rb  
a lib\ruby\site\_ruby\1.8\rubygems.rb  
m lib\ruby\site\_ruby\1.8\i386-msvcrt  
a lib\ruby\site\_ruby\1.8\i386-msvcrt\zlib.so  
a lib\ruby\1.8\i386-mswin32\socket.so  
a lib\ruby\1.8\timeout.rb  
m lib\ruby\1.8\net  
a lib\ruby\1.8\net\protocol.rb  
m lib\ruby\1.8\uri  
a lib\ruby\1.8\uri\common.rb  
a lib\ruby\1.8\uri\generic.rb  
a lib\ruby\1.8\uri\ftp.rb  
a lib\ruby\1.8\uri\http.rb  
a lib\ruby\1.8\uri\https.rb  
a lib\ruby\1.8\uri\ldap.rb  
a lib\ruby\1.8\uri\mailto.rb  
a lib\ruby\1.8\uri.rb  
a lib\ruby\1.8\net\http.rb  
a lib\ruby\1.8\parsedate.rb  
a lib\ruby\1.8\time.rb  
a lib\ruby\site\_ruby\1.8\rubygems\remote\_fetcher.rb  
a lib\ruby\site\_ruby\1.8\rubygems\spec\_fetcher.rb  
e RUBYOPT  
e RUBYLIB  
e GEM\_HOME Â \gemhome  
l bin\ruby.exe ruby.exe “Â \src\hello.rb”  
=== Compressing  
=== Finished (Final size was 505052)