Setting directory ruby is compiled to (BCC32 & Ruby 1.8.4)

Ruby
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I have Ruby compiling fine using Borlands (free) C compiler for Windows.
The only problem is I can’t set where ruby is compiled to, it just
installs it to the current directory (c:\ruby\src\ruby-1.8.4\bcc32).
Normally you can add --prefix=c:\ruby\bin to the configure command and
that sets the directory.

configure --prefix=c:\ruby\bin
make
make test
make install

I don’t use C much so it maybe something basic…

Many thanks, K.

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Is there anyone who is using BCC to compile Ruby, I know the standard
appears to be MS Visual C/C++.

Kris L. wrote:

I have Ruby compiling fine using Borlands (free) C compiler for Windows.
The only problem is I can’t set where ruby is compiled to, it just
installs it to the current directory (c:\ruby\src\ruby-1.8.4\bcc32).
Normally you can add --prefix=c:\ruby\bin to the configure command and
that sets the directory.

configure --prefix=c:\ruby\bin
make
make test
make install

I don’t use C much so it maybe something basic…

Many thanks, K.

3

Hi,

At Thu, 15 Jun 2006 05:10:33 +0900,
Kris L. wrote in [ruby-talk:197320]:

configure --prefix=c:\ruby\bin

prefix has no effects on Windows at all.

make
make test
make DESTDIR=/path/to/anywhere/you/like/to install

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unknown wrote:

Hi,

At Thu, 15 Jun 2006 05:10:33 +0900,
Kris L. wrote in [ruby-talk:197320]:

configure --prefix=c:\ruby\bin

prefix has no effects on Windows at all.

It seemed to using djgpp. Anyways using BCC32 I finally found out:
full_path_to_bcc32\configure
make
make DESTDIR=c:\ruby install

make
make test
make DESTDIR=/path/to/anywhere/you/like/to install

5

Hi,

At Mon, 19 Jun 2006 18:53:54 +0900,
Kris L. wrote in [ruby-talk:198001]:

It does not look like BCC32 has the correct configure files. It will
compile Ruby.exe but does not for some reason generate files like
strscan.so which should appear in the lib/1.8/i386-bcc32 (i think thats
correct, its somewhere in lib anyway). A simple helloworld will run, but
anything more and strscan gets used.

configure is a shell script, so it can’t run on Windows. There
is bcc32/configure.bat for bcc32 instead.

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It does not look like BCC32 has the correct configure files. It will
compile Ruby.exe but does not for some reason generate files like
strscan.so which should appear in the lib/1.8/i386-bcc32 (i think thats
correct, its somewhere in lib anyway). A simple helloworld will run, but
anything more and strscan gets used.

If I copy strscan from a pre-compiled version (I think which uses Visual
C) I get an error about not being able to find init__strscan.

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Nobuyoshi N. wrote:

Hi,

At Mon, 19 Jun 2006 18:53:54 +0900,
Kris L. wrote in [ruby-talk:198001]:

It does not look like BCC32 has the correct configure files. It will
compile Ruby.exe but does not for some reason generate files like
strscan.so which should appear in the lib/1.8/i386-bcc32 (i think thats
correct, its somewhere in lib anyway). A simple helloworld will run, but
anything more and strscan gets used.

configure is a shell script, so it can’t run on Windows. There
is bcc32/configure.bat for bcc32 instead.

That is what I have been using :slight_smile:

Can anyone confirm that is it possible to compile 1.8.4 or 1.8.2 with
Borland BCC32?

Thanks.