# Re: ruby-ldap on Windows (built) **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [April 18, 2006, 6:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-ruby-ldap-on-windows-built/58125 "2006-04-18T18:46:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [April 18, 2006, 6:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-ruby-ldap-on-windows-built/58125/1 "2006-04-18T18:46:55Z")
> -----Original Message----- > From: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > [[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)] On Behalf Of Chris S. > Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 10:28 AM > To: ruby-talk ML > Subject: ruby-ldap on Windows (built) > > I have finally managed to build the ruby-ldap library for the Windows > platform (i.e. not a cygwin or ming build, but an mswin32 build). Excellent work. May I ask how you did it? I did build errors from sslconn.c that I don’t see how you could have gotten around without modifying the source. Thanks, Dan ---
**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:** [April 18, 2006, 9:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-ruby-ldap-on-windows-built/58125/2 "2006-04-18T21:15:43Z")
Berger, Daniel wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > > [[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)] On Behalf Of Chris S. > > Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 10:28 AM > > To: ruby-talk ML > > Subject: ruby-ldap on Windows (built) > > > > I have finally managed to build the ruby-ldap library for the Windows > > platform (i.e. not a cygwin or ming build, but an mswin32 build). > > Excellent work. > > May I ask how you did it? I did build errors from sslconn.c that I > don’t see how you could have gotten around without modifying the source. > > Thanks, > > Dan I did have to modify the sslconn.c source slightly, in fact. There are three references to rb\_ldap\_sslconn\_bind\_func which should in fact be rb\_ldap\_sslconn\_bind\_f, and the rb\_ldap\_sslconn\_bind\_f is missing an argument (the third argument should be VALUE self). After that, it was a matter of download Microsoft bloat (700MB Platform SDK), and building the make file. The biggest problem is that the win directory creates the wldap32.lib file - however, I discovered that this .lib is a known bad library, and so I dropped in the one from the SDK. Without the proper version, even when I got it to compile, it would crash during a bind. Dropping in the .lib from the SDK alleviated this issue as well as all the build warnings about mismatched linker offsets.