# Re: rdoc windows issues

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-rdoc-windows-issues/53886>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [February 16, 2006, 12:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-rdoc-windows-issues/53886 "2006-02-16T00:51:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![BergerS\_Daniel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@BergerS\_Daniel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/BergerS_Daniel)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2006, 12:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-rdoc-windows-issues/53886/1 "2006-02-16T00:51:47Z")

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> > > require ‘rdoc/parsers/parse\_rb.rb’
> > 
> > Hm, that .rb can be removed. But I digress.
> 
> Do you mean the whole file, or just the extension,  
> $ ls /c/ruby/build/ruby/lib/rdoc/parsers/parse\*

Just the extension.

> Generating RI…  
> c:/ruby/build/ruby/lib/yaml.rb:9:in `require’: no such file  
> to load – stringio (LoadError)

It looks like the stringio library (a C extension) failed to build  
properly. Check the ext/stringio/mkmf.log file and see what happened.  
Or, try to build it manually by running “ruby extconf.rb; make” and see  
what happens.

That, or there’s some sort of path issue.

Regards,

Dan

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**Author:** ![BergerS\_Daniel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@BergerS\_Daniel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/BergerS_Daniel)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2006, 2:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-rdoc-windows-issues/53886/2 "2006-02-16T02:52:50Z")

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On 2/15/06, Berger, Daniel [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> It looks like the stringio library (a C extension) failed to build  
> properly.

Success!  
After make clean, i rebuilt ruby and with the changes to **FILE**  
this time everything worked.

Now have complete system!

You D’man.