Hi,
I recently started working on an existing Ruby On Rails application
which production environment is linux. However we are trying to create a
dev. platform with Eclipse in Windows and everything was working fine
until one of our classes was trying to import system_timer.
The initial error I got is:
no such file to load – system_timer
Application Trace:
c:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in
gem_original_require' c:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:inrequire’
c:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:156:in
require' c:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:521:innew_constants_in’
c:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:156:in
require' C:/Documents and Settings/eshakor/workspace/InfoQuality/app/models/ldap_user.rb:2 C:/Documents and Settings/eshakor/workspace/InfoQuality/app/controllers/auth_controller.rb:44:inauthenticateAndAuthorize’
C:/Documents and
Settings/eshakor/workspace/InfoQuality/app/controllers/auth_controller.rb:18:in
`login’
Ok so I figured I need to install system_timer so I opened a command
prompt and typed:
gem install system_timer
And got error:
‘nmake’ is not recognized as an internal or external command
operable program or batch file.
Hm, seems like I need some program called nmake. After some Googling it
seemed like nmake was some kind of build utility. So I downloaded it and
ran the install command again and got:
‘cl’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
Right, so I need a C compiler. After ALOT of searching and trial and
error with various windows C compilers I finally I managed to find and
install Microsoft Visual C++ Express Edition and opened an SVC prompt (a
command prompt with some env. settings) and tried the command for the
third time. This time I got a long stack trace which I will only show a
small excerpt here:
cl -nologo -I. -Ic:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-mswin32
-Ic:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.
8/i386-mswin32 -I. -MD -Zi -O2b2xg- -G6 -c -Tcsystem_timer_native.c
cl : Command line warning D9035 : option ‘Og-’ has been deprecated and
will be r
emoved in a future release
cl : Command line warning D9002 : ignoring unknown option ‘-G6’
system_timer_native.c
system_timer_native.c(10) : error C2061: syntax error : identifier
‘original_mas
k’
system_timer_native.c(10) : error C2059: syntax error : ‘;’
system_timer_native.c(11) : error C2061: syntax error : identifier
‘sigalarm_mas
k’
.
.
.
So it seems Visual Studios compiler is not compatible with whatever
compiler is needed to build system_timer and this is where I am stuck.
Where do I find a suitable C compiler for windows to build system_timer?
Or is there some other way to install system_timer in windows?
Im using Ruby 1.8x and Rails 2.2x. Really appreciate some help as I have
spent over 10 hours trying to fix this seemingly easy issue and as I am
really a Java developer I am not used to these kind of problems 
