# Ruby-ldap on Windows (built) **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [April 18, 2006, 6:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ldap-on-windows-built/58123 "2006-04-18T18:28:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![yetanothergeek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/8e8cbc/32.png) [@yetanothergeek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/yetanothergeek)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 5:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ldap-on-windows-built/58123/21 "2006-08-29T17:16:58Z")
Francis C. wrote: > Rcmn 73 wrote: > > > Francis C. wrote: > > > > > On 8/28/06, Rcmn 73 [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > > > > > That would be great if ActiveLdap get accessible without compiling. > > > > Because i almost choose to do this project with python.I was done with > > > > my test in less than 3 hours installation included. I was ready to go > > > > with it but i found active\_directory ,a python module, easy to use but > > > > also very limitated. > > > > > > Out of curiosity, what were the specific limitations you found with > > > the python module active\_directory? I want to make sure I didn’t leave > > > similar limitations in Net::LDAP :-). > > > > this module allow to just search.No add/remove function .And i run into > > a limitation, 1500 max returns(That’s just what i’ve been experiencing). > > Thanks for the information. Net::LDAP has the full set of LDAP > operations. I’m a little surprised that you are able to get 1500 entries > per search, though. The usual limitation with ActiveDirectory is 1000. > Many tools have this limitation, which is caused by a lack of support > for RFC-2696. Net::LDAP doesn’t have this limitation, and neither do the > more recent versions of ldapsearch. > > I’ve never heard of 1500, though, unless your A/D configuration has been > tweaked. This is a very good new that Net::LDAP does not have this limitation. As our Active directory limitation it has probably limitated to 1500.Using PHP or the DS command’s i can get various result but i was never able to get more than 1500+.And depending of the periode of the day PHP or DS cmd would just died without any return.Anyway with the python module i get a consitent 1500.So maybe as u mention the limitation is an AD setting. So i assume i will run into that limitation also with Net::LDAP…Or Net::LDAP process search by a different way and avoid this sort of limitation ? By getting a set of 100 then an other 100 etc ? Or is that impossible? ---
**Author:** ![yetanothergeek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/8e8cbc/32.png) [@yetanothergeek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/yetanothergeek)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 5:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ldap-on-windows-built/58123/22 "2006-08-29T17:45:41Z")
On 8/29/06, Rcmn 73 [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > This is a very good new that Net::LDAP does not have this limitation. Net::LDAP correctly implements the “paged-search” control, so there is no limit on the number of entries you can query from A/D. If your set is particularly large (more than 10,000 for example), then I recommend you use the :return\_result =\> false flag. See the rdocs for Net::LDAP#search for more information. ---
**Author:** ![yetanothergeek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/8e8cbc/32.png) [@yetanothergeek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/yetanothergeek)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 3:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ldap-on-windows-built/58123/23 "2006-08-29T15:57:30Z")
Rcmn 73 wrote: > Francis C. wrote: > > > On 8/28/06, Rcmn 73 [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > > > That would be great if ActiveLdap get accessible without compiling. > > > Because i almost choose to do this project with python.I was done with > > > my test in less than 3 hours installation included. I was ready to go > > > with it but i found active\_directory ,a python module, easy to use but > > > also very limitated. > > > > Out of curiosity, what were the specific limitations you found with > > the python module active\_directory? I want to make sure I didn’t leave > > similar limitations in Net::LDAP :-). > > this module allow to just search.No add/remove function .And i run into > a limitation, 1500 max returns(That’s just what i’ve been experiencing). Thanks for the information. Net::LDAP has the full set of LDAP operations. I’m a little surprised that you are able to get 1500 entries per search, though. The usual limitation with ActiveDirectory is 1000. Many tools have this limitation, which is caused by a lack of support for RFC-2696. Net::LDAP doesn’t have this limitation, and neither do the more recent versions of ldapsearch. I’ve never heard of 1500, though, unless your A/D configuration has been tweaked. ---
**Author:** ![yetanothergeek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/8e8cbc/32.png) [@yetanothergeek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/yetanothergeek)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 5:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ldap-on-windows-built/58123/24 "2006-08-29T17:47:43Z")
On 8/29/06, Rcmn 73 [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > This is a very good new that Net::LDAP does not have this limitation. > As our Active directory limitation it has probably limitated to > 1500.Using PHP or the DS command’s i can get various result but i was > never able to get more than 1500+.And depending of the periode of the > day PHP or DS cmd would just died without any return.Anyway with the > python module i get a consitent 1500.So maybe as u mention the > limitation is an AD setting. > So i assume i will run into that limitation also with Net::LDAP…Or > Net::LDAP process search by a different way and avoid this sort of > limitation ? By getting a set of 100 then an other 100 etc ? Or is that > impossible? I forgot to mention: paged searches are automatic in Net::LDAP. You don’t have to write your code differently to get them. ---
**Author:** ![yetanothergeek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/8e8cbc/32.png) [@yetanothergeek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/yetanothergeek)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 6:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ldap-on-windows-built/58123/25 "2006-08-29T18:11:46Z")
Does Net::LDAP have a way of dealing with this on v2 servers? or servers that don’t yet implement paged results? Thanks. -jason ---
**Author:** ![yetanothergeek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/8e8cbc/32.png) [@yetanothergeek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/yetanothergeek)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 6:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ldap-on-windows-built/58123/26 "2006-08-29T18:26:59Z")
Francis C. wrote: > On 8/29/06, Rcmn 73 [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > This is a very good new that Net::LDAP does not have this limitation. > > As our Active directory limitation it has probably limitated to > > 1500.Using PHP or the DS command’s i can get various result but i was > > never able to get more than 1500+.And depending of the periode of the > > day PHP or DS cmd would just died without any return.Anyway with the > > python module i get a consitent 1500.So maybe as u mention the > > limitation is an AD setting. > > So i assume i will run into that limitation also with Net::LDAP…Or > > Net::LDAP process search by a different way and avoid this sort of > > limitation ? By getting a set of 100 then an other 100 etc ? Or is that > > impossible? > > I forgot to mention: paged searches are automatic in Net::LDAP. You > don’t have to write your code differently to get them. This is great informations and specially great news.Thank you very much for the information and the great work. ---
**Author:** ![yetanothergeek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/8e8cbc/32.png) [@yetanothergeek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/yetanothergeek)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 6:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ldap-on-windows-built/58123/27 "2006-08-29T18:23:48Z")
On 8/29/06, Jason R. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Does Net::LDAP have a way of dealing with this on v2 servers? or > servers that don’t yet implement paged results? Thanks. > > -jason That’s two different questions. Net::LDAP only implements V3. Do you actually have a V2 server??? If so, I’d be really appreciative if you could try Net::LDAP against it and see what happens. (Is it one of those early Netscape Enterprise Directories?) Paged results: Net::LDAP specifies the control as “noncritical,” which means it will be ignored by servers that don’t recognize it (such as OpenLDAP versions other than very recent ones). So it will interoperate seamlessly with these servers. ---
**Author:** ![yetanothergeek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/8e8cbc/32.png) [@yetanothergeek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/yetanothergeek)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 6:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ldap-on-windows-built/58123/28 "2006-08-29T18:35:51Z")
On 8/29/06, Rcmn 73 [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > This is great informations and specially great news.Thank you very > much > for the information and the great work. If you try the library and have problems, please tell me, either here or by private email. A lot of people have done so already, and it makes the library better for everyone. ---
**Author:** ![yetanothergeek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/8e8cbc/32.png) [@yetanothergeek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/yetanothergeek)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 6:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ldap-on-windows-built/58123/29 "2006-08-29T18:31:50Z")
I don’t have a V2 server; I was more concerned with the versions of OpenLDAP that don’t recognize it… Is there a way to deal with getting all the results from a not recent OpenLDAP server? Thanks. -jason ---
**Author:** ![yetanothergeek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/8e8cbc/32.png) [@yetanothergeek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/yetanothergeek)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 7:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ldap-on-windows-built/58123/30 "2006-08-29T19:56:05Z")
Excellent… I’ll have to start retrofitting some of my ruby/ldap based scripts over, and playin’ around. -jason ---
**Author:** ![yetanothergeek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/8e8cbc/32.png) [@yetanothergeek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/yetanothergeek)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 7:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ldap-on-windows-built/58123/31 "2006-08-29T19:15:59Z")
On 8/29/06, Jason R. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > I don’t have a V2 server; I was more concerned with the versions of > OpenLDAP that don’t recognize it… Is there a way to deal with > getting all the results from a not recent OpenLDAP server? Thanks. Net::LDAP works seamlessly with older OpenLDAP servers that don’t support paged queries. I know because I use one in production all day long. For what it’s worth (and at the risk of igniting some flames): I’m quite convinced that paged-searches were invented by Microsoft primarily to lighten the load on their somewhat, ummm… “challenging” LDAP implementation. (Bear in mind that LDAP support was tacked onto A/D after the core was designed.) If you read the paged-search RFC, they blow some smoke about lessening the load on _client_ implementations. OpenLDAP added paged searches recently, but their older implementations don’t suffer particularly for the lack. I routinely query 100,000 entries out of an old OpenLDAP on a low-end workstation to test Net::LDAP, and it doesn’t break a sweat. It’s not fast, but it’s stable. ---
**Author:** ![yetanothergeek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/8e8cbc/32.png) [@yetanothergeek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/yetanothergeek)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2008, 3:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ldap-on-windows-built/58123/32 "2008-03-13T15:13:20Z")
> I’m getting the following error when i try to install ruby-ldap-0.9.7 in > Windows Vista. > > extconf.rb:162:in ``’: No such file or directory - lib > /def:./win/wldap32.def /o > ut:./win/wldap32.lib (Errno::ENOENT) > from extconf.rb:162 > > Someone can help me? But who use Windows Vista ??? sorry --\> [] ---
**Author:** ![yetanothergeek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/8e8cbc/32.png) [@yetanothergeek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/yetanothergeek)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2008, 3:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ldap-on-windows-built/58123/33 "2008-03-13T15:26:51Z")
It say’s that file you want open or do something else don’t exist. Maybe you just do some mistake in path to this file or you don’t have permissions to access. 2008/3/13, Rcmn 73 [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): ---
**Author:** ![yetanothergeek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/8e8cbc/32.png) [@yetanothergeek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/yetanothergeek)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2008, 1:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ldap-on-windows-built/58123/34 "2008-03-13T13:57:16Z")
Chris S. wrote: > Wilson B. wrote: > > > On 4/18/06, Chris S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > > > on the mswin32 build, please try the pre-built package: > > > I believe these are the proper locations. Hopefully this helps someone > > > out there 🙂 > > > > > > Note: This was build using 0.9.4 of ruby-ldap on WinXP SP2. > > > > I would LOVE to know how you managed this. I struck out hard on > > several occasions, and I’d like to learn from my mistakes. > > > > –Wilson. > > Well, the first step was to download the latest Platform SDK > ([http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0baf2b35-c656-4969-ace8-e4c0c0716adb&DisplayLang=en](http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0baf2b35-c656-4969-ace8-e4c0c0716adb&DisplayLang=en)). > The reason is that I have MSVC C++ 6.0, and apparently that distribution > has a known issue with the wldap32.lib library. After downloading the > SDK, I grabbed the latest ruby-ldap source from sourceforge. > > Now, the ruby-ldap source has a win directory, which has a wldap32.def > file, and this is used to build the wldap32.lib file. However, I think > this .def creates the BAD .lib that comes with MSVC 6, so what I did was > drop in the one from the platform SDK. > > Now, the tricky part: modifiying the source. I had to open the > sslconn.c file, and change a few things. The first is that the > rb\_ldap\_sslconn\_bind\_f function (around line 260) is missing an > argument. The function definition should be: > > VALUE rb\_ldap\_sslconn\_bind\_f(int argc, VALUE argv[], VALUE self, > VALUE (\*rb\_ldap\_sslconn\_bind\_func) (int, VALUE, VALUE)) > > The two functions that follow (rb\_ldap\_sslconn\_bind\_s and > rb\_ldap\_sslconn\_simple\_bind\_s) make calls to a function called > > rb\_ldap\_sslconn\_bind\_func > > However, it should be > > rb\_ldap\_sslconn\_bind\_f > > Next - the SDK includes special command prompt shortcuts that set up the > paths and all that, so I used the one for my machine (Win XP 32-bit), > and went to the directory where I had extracted the source. > > Then: > > ruby extconf.rb --with-wldap32 > nmake > nmake install > > I believe the Platform SDK itself should be sufficient to build > everything - the real trick is getting that .lib from the SDK and > dropping it in the \win directory of the extracted source, and then > changing the source code. I’m getting the following error when i try to install ruby-ldap-0.9.7 in Windows Vista. extconf.rb:162:in ``': No such file or directory - lib /def:./win/wldap32.def /o ut:./win/wldap32.lib (Errno::ENOENT) from extconf.rb:162 Someone can help me? ---
**Author:** ![yetanothergeek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/8e8cbc/32.png) [@yetanothergeek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/yetanothergeek)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2008, 7:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ldap-on-windows-built/58123/35 "2008-08-08T19:28:24Z")
Hi… Someone has build ruby-ldap with openldap2 (–with-openldap2) for windows xp? I’m using openldap and the pre-built package, i have problem when updating attributes from my rails app. No such attribute… I build openldap, ruby-ldap with openldap2, and installed activeldap and works full gut!.. Someone can help? thankx ---
**Author:** ![yetanothergeek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/8e8cbc/32.png) [@yetanothergeek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/yetanothergeek)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2009, 10:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ldap-on-windows-built/58123/36 "2009-08-20T10:54:04Z")
Chris S. wrote: > 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). > > This has been an issue for awhile as the maintainer of the project does > not have access to a Windows machine for testing. > > So far, it seems to be working (I use it only for ActiveDirectory > authentication). > > Anyway, if you are like me and have been struggling to get ldap working > on the mswin32 build, please try the pre-built package: > > Download: > [http://webtest.wvu.edu/users/cbscharf/ldap/](http://webtest.wvu.edu/users/cbscharf/ldap/) > > Put ldap.so in: > C:\ruby\lib\ruby\site\_ruby\1.8\i386-msvcrt > > Put \*.rb in: > C:\ruby\lib\ruby\site\_ruby\1.8\ldap > > I believe these are the proper locations. Hopefully this helps someone > out there 🙂 > > Note: This was build using 0.9.4 of ruby-ldap on WinXP SP2. > hi,I feel excited to the mswin32 build,but the download url provided > can’t be accessed. can you help me? > my email address is removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid. > thank you in advance. ---
**Author:** ![yetanothergeek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/8e8cbc/32.png) [@yetanothergeek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/yetanothergeek)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2008, 7:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ldap-on-windows-built/58123/37 "2008-08-08T19:31:18Z")
sorry! when i say…: I build openldap, ruby-ldap with openldap2, and installed activeldap and works full gut!.. works full gut in Leopard… but on Windows? [Previous page](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ldap-on-windows-built/58123.md?page=1)