# Rubygems 0.9.5 and fastthread mswin32 gem **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [December 5, 2007, 11:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-0-9-5-and-fastthread-mswin32-gem/122182 "2007-12-05T11:09:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Vassilis\_R](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/848f3c/32.png) [@Vassilis\_R](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Vassilis_R)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2007, 11:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-0-9-5-and-fastthread-mswin32-gem/122182/1 "2007-12-05T11:09:16Z")
Is there a binary gem for fastthread on windows? gem install fastthread on windows tries to compile with rather unpleasant consequences. I guess fastthread compilation is done with the VC6.0 tools, cause my VS2005 installation crashes and burns: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\>gem install fastthread Building native extensions. This could take a while… ERROR: Error installing fastthread: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. c:/dev/ruby/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb install fastthread creating Makefile nmake Microsoft ® Program Maintenance Utility Version 8.00.50727.762 Copyright © Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. ``` cl -nologo -I. -Ic:/dev/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-mswin32 ``` -Ic:/dev/ruby/lib /ruby/1.8/i386-mswin32 -I. -MD -Zi -O2b2xg- -G6 -c -Tcfastthread.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’ fastthread.c c:\dev\ruby\lib\ruby\1.8\i386-mswin32\config.h(2) : fatal error C1189: #error : MSC version unmatch NMAKE : fatal error U1077: ‘“C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\BIN\c l.EXE”’ : return code ‘0x2’ Stop. Anyone got an idea? Cheers, V.- ---
**Author:** ![Vassilis\_R](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/848f3c/32.png) [@Vassilis\_R](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Vassilis_R)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2007, 2:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-0-9-5-and-fastthread-mswin32-gem/122182/2 "2007-12-05T14:03:43Z")
On Dec 5, 7:08 am, Vassilis R. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Is there a binary gem for fastthread on windows? Yes, there is. RubyGems 0.9.5 is broken for mswin32. This was reported here, in mongrel mailing list and all over the web. > gem install fastthread on windows tries to compile with rather > unpleasant consequences. gem install is trying to install the ruby version of all these gems since “think” there is no match for ‘mswin32’ platform. All that was fixed on RubyGems trunk but still no official release of “0.9.5.1” to fix it. > I guess fastthread compilation is done with the VC6.0 tools, cause my > VS2005 installation crashes and burns: You can use a different compiler than the one use to build ruby. You need to build ruby with VS2005. That’s another story, the bottom line is: rubygems shouldn’t be asking Revert to RubyGems 0.9.4 for the time being and this problem will go away. (I know is not your fault, but I’m really getting tired of repeat myself all over again). HTH, Luis ---
**Author:** ![Vassilis\_R](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/848f3c/32.png) [@Vassilis\_R](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Vassilis_R)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2007, 3:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-0-9-5-and-fastthread-mswin32-gem/122182/3 "2007-12-05T15:01:53Z")
Luis L. wrote: > “0.9.5.1” to fix it. > > > I guess fastthread compilation is done with the VC6.0 tools, cause > > my VS2005 installation crashes and burns: > > You can use a different compiler than the one use to build ruby. You > > need to build ruby with VS2005. > > at’s another story, the bottom line is: rubygems shouldn’t be > > asking > > Revert to RubyGems 0.9.4 for the time being and this problem will go > > away. > > (I know is not your fault, but I’m really getting tired of repeat > > myself all over again). > > I can undertsand that :). I guess I can get the binary gem and install > > locally. > > The problem is that reverting to 0.9.4 brings up a different problem > > that I have with one of my own gems. > > When I do a gem install or gem update rutema with 0.9.4 a list pops up > > with the available versions. > > Now the old versions (build with Hoe) have ruby as a platform. The new > > versions (posted yesterday) have no platform set (empty parenthesis). > > If I choose any of the new versions I get a 404 error from gem. Note > > that this happens only on windows, on my mac everything works fine. > > Everything is built with Hoe so it must be something that happened > > during the upgrade of either rubygems or hoe. > > Once I upgraded to rubygems 0.9.5 the problem went away. > > Now it might be that because I built the gems on a system with 0.9.5 > > there is some kind of incompatibility with 0.9.4 > > I honestly don’t have the time to look into it though ☹ > > Cheers, > > V.- ---
**Author:** ![Vassilis\_R](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/848f3c/32.png) [@Vassilis\_R](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Vassilis_R)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2007, 7:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-0-9-5-and-fastthread-mswin32-gem/122182/4 "2007-12-05T19:05:39Z")
On Dec 5, 10:19 am, Vassilis R. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > All that was fixed on RubyGems trunk but still no official release of > > myself all over again). > > that this happens only on windows, on my mac everything works fine. > > Everything is built with Hoe so it must be something that happened > > during the upgrade of either rubygems or hoe. > > Once I upgraded to rubygems 0.9.5 the problem went away. > > Now it might be that because I built the gems on a system with 0.9.5 > > there is some kind of incompatibility with 0.9.4 Hoe set the platform to the gem specification to Gem::Platform::RUBY by default, so if this was packaged in the gem as empty string or rubygems being unable to ‘parse’ the platform rutema gem is set could be a bug in rubygems itself. You should report this situation in RubyGems tracker: [http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?group\_id=126](http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?group_id=126) > I honestly don’t have the time to look into it though ☹ > Cheers, > V.- Me neither 😛 A lot of folks didn’t roll the upgrade to 0.9.5, and some of those who made it revert back to 0.9.4… I suggest you recreate these gems with 0.9.4 and ask Tom (at Rubyforge support) to help you resync them on the mirrors replacing the old and broken ones. Regards. Luis ---
**Author:** ![Vassilis\_R](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/848f3c/32.png) [@Vassilis\_R](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Vassilis_R)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 1:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-0-9-5-and-fastthread-mswin32-gem/122182/5 "2007-12-13T01:05:59Z")
On Dec 11, 10:05 am, Arthur H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > I have the same problem, but i am using 0.9.4. > I’ve tried gem install fastthread and choose the mswin32 version, didn’t > work, it tried to compile. > I’ve even downloaded the gem manually and tried to install it, but it > still tried to compile it. > Any clue what could be going on here? Weird: D:\Users\Luis\>gem install fastthread --include-dependencies --no-ri – no-rdoc Need to update 31 gems from [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org) … complete Select which gem to install for your platform (i386-mswin32) 1. fastthread 1.0.1 (mswin32) 2. fastthread 1.0.1 (ruby) 3. fastthread 1.0 (mswin32) 4. fastthread 1.0 (ruby) 5. Skip this gem 6. Cancel installation > 1 > Successfully installed fastthread-1.0.1-mswin32 D:\Users\Luis\>irb irb(main):001:0\> require ‘rubygems’ =\> true irb(main):002:0\> require ‘fastthread’ =\> true irb(main):003:0\> Thread Thread ThreadError ThreadGroup D:\Users\Luis\>gem -v 0.9.4 D:\Users\Luis\>gem env RubyGems Environment: - VERSION: 0.9.4 (0.9.4) - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8 - GEM PATH: - C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8 - REMOTE SOURCES: - [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org) ---
**Author:** ![Vassilis\_R](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/848f3c/32.png) [@Vassilis\_R](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Vassilis_R)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 2:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-0-9-5-and-fastthread-mswin32-gem/122182/6 "2007-12-11T14:05:30Z")
I have the same problem, but i am using 0.9.4. I’ve tried gem install fastthread and choose the mswin32 version, didn’t work, it tried to compile. I’ve even downloaded the gem manually and tried to install it, but it still tried to compile it. Any clue what could be going on here?