Wxruby problem

rainer · July 29, 2009, 6:41pm

Hello,

I have a problem trying to get wxruby to work with Ruby 1.9.1 on
Windows xp.

I typed “gem install wxruby”
I tried to run the sample “bigdemo.rb”, which had already been working
under Ruby 1.8.6 some time ago.
This is what I get:

ruby bigdemo.rb
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/wxruby-2.0.0-x86-mswin32-60/lib/
wxruby2.so: [BUG] Segmentation fault
ruby 1.9.1p129 (2009-05-12 revision 23412) [i386-mswin32]

– control frame ----------
c:0008 p:-2799958 s:0022 b:0022 l:000021 d:000021 TOP
c:0007 p:---- s:0020 b:0020 l:000019 d:000019 CFUNC :require
c:0006 p:0011 s:0016 b:0016 l:000015 d:000015 TOP c:/ruby/lib/ruby/
gems/1.9.1/gems/wxruby-2.0.0-x86-mswin32-60/lib/wx.rb:12
c:0005 p:---- s:0013 b:0013 l:000012 d:000012 FINISH
c:0004 p:---- s:0011 b:0011 l:000010 d:000010 CFUNC :require
c:0003 p:0026 s:0007 b:0007 l:001f5c d:001088 EVAL bigdemo.rb:8
c:0002 p:---- s:0004 b:0004 l:000003 d:000003 FINISH
c:0001 p:0000 s:0002 b:0002 l:001f5c d:001f5c TOP :352

– Ruby level backtrace
information-----------------------------------------
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/wxruby-2.0.0-x86-mswin32-60/lib/wx.rb:
12:in require' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/wxruby-2.0.0-x86-mswin32-60/lib/wx.rb: 12:in <top (required)>’
bigdemo.rb:8:in require' bigdemo.rb:8:in ’

[NOTE]
You may encounter a bug of Ruby interpreter. Bug reports are welcome.
For details: http://www.ruby-lang.org/bugreport.html

This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an
unusual way.
Please contact the application’s support team for more information.

Exit code: 3

The file “c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/wxruby-2.0.0-x86-mswin32-60/
lib/wxruby2.so” is where it should be.
I uninstalled and reinstalled wxWidgets again, using version 2.8.10
from Downloads - wxWidgets with the Windows Installer
wxMSW). Again, no cigar.

Does anybody know what’s going on here?

Kind regards,

Rainer

rainer · July 29, 2009, 7:26pm

Rainer wrote:

I typed “gem install wxruby”

Hi Rainer,

Try the 1.9 version of WxRuby:
gem install wxruby-ruby19

Marvin

rainer · July 29, 2009, 9:25pm

On 29 Jul., 19:26, Marvin Gülker [email protected] wrote:

Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.
Hello Marvin,

thank you for the quick reply! Unfortunately, it didn’t work. When I
type

gem install wxruby-ruby19

I get

ERROR: could not find gem wxruby-ruby19 locally or in a repository

Any further ideas?

Kind regards

Rainer

P.S.: I see that you posted your answer via ruby-forum. Does that mean
I should rather post there instead of comp.lang.ruby?

rainer · July 30, 2009, 11:16am

Rainer wrote:

On 29 Jul., 19:26, Marvin Gï¿½lker [email protected] wrote:
ERROR: could not find gem wxruby-ruby19 locally or in a repository

Any further ideas?

What’s the version of RubyGems you are using?
This is the search result on my Windows XP SP3:

ruby -v
ruby 1.9.1p129 (2009-05-12 revision 23412) [i386-mingw32]
gem -v
1.3.5
gem search wxruby-ruby19 --remote

*** REMOTE GEMS ***

wxruby-ruby19 (2.0.0)

Are you using the mswin32 version of WxRuby? I run into problems
compiling it with MSVC and after many attempts I gave up and switched to
MinGW. I don’t have any problems with this now.
BTW, WxRuby doesn’t work with another version of Ruby 1.9 yet as with
1.9.1-p0. This is due to a change in the C API of Ruby. I was promised
that this will be fixed in the next release (see
Unable to use wxruby-ruby19 in Ruby 1.9.1-p129 on Windows - wxRuby - Ruby-Forum ), but I don’t know when this
will be (and since I’m using Linux Ubuntu most I won’t recognize a new
Windows release quickly).

Rainer wrote:

P.S.: I see that you posted your answer via ruby-forum. Does that mean
I should rather post there instead of comp.lang.ruby?
It’s the same. comp.lang.ruby is mirrored by ruby-forum.com and
everything you post to the mailing list is visible to the people on
ruby-forum.com. The same goes the other way round.

Marvin

rainer · July 30, 2009, 11:21am

Marvin GÃ¼lker wrote:

Are you using the mswin32 version of WxRuby? I run into problems
Sorry, I meant Ruby, not WxRuby.

Marvin

rainer · July 30, 2009, 1:40pm

On 30 Jul., 11:21, Marvin Gülker [email protected] wrote:

Marvin Gülker wrote:

Are you using the mswin32 version of WxRuby? I run into problems

Sorry, I meant Ruby, not WxRuby.

Marvin

Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello Marvin,

thanks for the reply. I had already looked up your posting on the
forum regarding this issue:

BTW, WxRuby doesn’t work with another version of Ruby 1.9 yet as with
1.9.1-p0. This is due to a change in the C API of Ruby. I was promised
that this will be fixed in the next release (seehttp://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/187872#new), but I don’t know when this
will be (and since I’m using Linux Ubuntu most I won’t recognize a new
Windows release quickly).

So I did a fresh install of Ruby, using “mingw32-ruby-1.9.1-
wxruby-2.0.0-setup.exe” from rubyforge. That’s a Ruby installation
with pre-installed wxRuby gems. Bigdemo.rb ran without any problems.
So I am going to reinstall and update my gems and everything should be
fine (hopefully).

What’s the version of RubyGems you are using?

On the brand new Ruby installation (see above) I ran

gem -v

and found out that I was still using 1.3.1. So I typed:

gem update --system

This was the result:

—begin—
Updating RubyGems
Updating rubygems-update
Successfully installed rubygems-update-1.3.5
:0:Warning: Gem::SourceIndex#search support for String patterns is
deprecated
Updating RubyGems to 1.3.5
Installing RubyGems 1.3.5
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rubygems-update-1.3.5/lib/rubygems/
config_file.
rb:39:in new': wrong number of arguments (5 for 4) (ArgumentError) from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rubygems-update-1.3.5/ lib/rubygems /config_file.rb:39:in class:ConfigFile’
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rubygems-update-1.3.5/
lib/rubygems
/config_file.rb:12:in <top (required)>' from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rubygems-update-1.3.5/ lib/rubygems /gem_runner.rb:8:in require’
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rubygems-update-1.3.5/
lib/rubygems
/gem_runner.rb:8:in <top (required)>' from setup.rb:25:in require’
from setup.rb:25:in `’
RubyGems system software updated
–end–

Now, when I type

gem -v

I get this:

—begin—
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rubygems-update-1.3.5/lib/rubygems/
config_file.
rb:39:in new': wrong number of arguments (5 for 4) (ArgumentError) from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rubygems-update-1.3.5/ lib/rubygems /config_file.rb:39:in class:ConfigFile’
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rubygems-update-1.3.5/
lib/rubygems
/config_file.rb:12:in <top (required)>' from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rubygems-update-1.3.5/ lib/rubygems /gem_runner.rb:8:in require’
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rubygems-update-1.3.5/
lib/rubygems
/gem_runner.rb:8:in <top (required)>' from c:/ruby/bin/gem.bat:17:in require’
from c:/ruby/bin/gem.bat:17:in `’
—end—

Does this mean I have broken rubygems on mingw32 by typing “gem update
–system”? Typing

“gem search wxruby-ruby19 --remote”

or trying to install a gem - any gem - gives me the same argument
error.

Now I’m even more confused. “Bigdemo” is still working after the
failed rubygems upgrade, but now I’m unable to install any gems. Of
course, I can reinstall and stay with rubygems 1.3.1, but is this an
issue that should be reported to someone?

Kind regards,

Rainer

rainer · July 30, 2009, 5:15pm

Hello Marvin,

somehow, my last message was lost. Anyway, I filed a bug:

http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=26801&group_id=126&atid=575

Cheers,

Rainer

rainer · July 30, 2009, 3:13pm

Rainer wrote:

gem -v

and found out that I was still using 1.3.1. So I typed:

gem update --system

This was the result:

—begin—
Updating RubyGems
Updating rubygems-update
Successfully installed rubygems-update-1.3.5
:0:Warning: Gem::SourceIndex#search support for String patterns is
deprecated
Updating RubyGems to 1.3.5
Installing RubyGems 1.3.5
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rubygems-update-1.3.5/lib/rubygems/
config_file.
rb:39:in new': wrong number of arguments (5 for 4) (ArgumentError) from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rubygems-update-1.3.5/ lib/rubygems /config_file.rb:39:in class:ConfigFile’
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rubygems-update-1.3.5/
lib/rubygems
/config_file.rb:12:in <top (required)>' from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rubygems-update-1.3.5/ lib/rubygems /gem_runner.rb:8:in require’
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rubygems-update-1.3.5/
lib/rubygems
/gem_runner.rb:8:in <top (required)>' from setup.rb:25:in require’
from setup.rb:25:in `’
RubyGems system software updated
–end–

Now, when I type

gem -v

I get this:

—begin—
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rubygems-update-1.3.5/lib/rubygems/
config_file.
rb:39:in new': wrong number of arguments (5 for 4) (ArgumentError) from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rubygems-update-1.3.5/ lib/rubygems /config_file.rb:39:in class:ConfigFile’
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rubygems-update-1.3.5/
lib/rubygems
/config_file.rb:12:in <top (required)>' from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rubygems-update-1.3.5/ lib/rubygems /gem_runner.rb:8:in require’
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rubygems-update-1.3.5/
lib/rubygems
/gem_runner.rb:8:in <top (required)>' from c:/ruby/bin/gem.bat:17:in require’
from c:/ruby/bin/gem.bat:17:in `’
—end—

Does this mean I have broken rubygems on mingw32 by typing “gem update
–system”? Typing

“gem search wxruby-ruby19 --remote”

or trying to install a gem - any gem - gives me the same argument
error.

Now I’m even more confused. “Bigdemo” is still working after the
failed rubygems upgrade, but now I’m unable to install any gems. Of
course, I can reinstall and stay with rubygems 1.3.1, but is this an
issue that should be reported to someone?

Kind regards,

Rainer

Hi Rainer,
Some minuts ago I had the same problem. If you try to update RubyGems to
1.3.5 on a ruby-1.9.1-p0 installation you get this issue on Windows (I’m
too lazy to compile and test with Linux at the moment). I wasn’t able to
undo the update, since RubyGems seems to be broken after the update.
There were some problems with the 1.3.5 version of RubyGems on Windows a
few days ago on the mailing list, but I don’t remember what exactly. I
had to reinstall my ruby-1.9.1-p0 after updating RubyGems. Maybe it’s
best not to update at the moment. When the new WxRuby is released, we
will (hopefully) be able to use it with ruby-1.9.1-p243 or the like.
Or try compiling it yourself against the MinGW GCC and the newest Ruby-
but I think you have WxWidgets to be installed for this.

Rainer wrote:

Of
course, I can reinstall and stay with rubygems 1.3.1, but is this an
issue that should be reported to someone?
File a RubyGems bug:
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?atid=575&group_id=126&func=browse

Marvin