# Wxruby problem **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [July 29, 2009, 6:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wxruby-problem/172904 "2009-07-29T18:41:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rainer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/58956e/32.png) [@rainer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rainer)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 6:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wxruby-problem/172904/1 "2009-07-29T18:41:08Z")
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 `\’ 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](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](http://wxwidgets.org/downloads/) with the Windows Installer wxMSW). Again, no cigar. Does anybody know what’s going on here? Kind regards, Rainer ---
**Author:** ![rainer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/58956e/32.png) [@rainer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rainer)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 7:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wxruby-problem/172904/2 "2009-07-29T19:26:07Z")
Rainer wrote: > I typed “gem install wxruby” Hi Rainer, Try the 1.9 version of WxRuby: gem install wxruby-ruby19 Marvin ---
**Author:** ![rainer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/58956e/32.png) [@rainer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rainer)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 9:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wxruby-problem/172904/3 "2009-07-29T21:25:38Z")
On 29 Jul., 19:26, Marvin Gülker [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) 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? ---
**Author:** ![rainer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/58956e/32.png) [@rainer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rainer)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 11:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wxruby-problem/172904/4 "2009-07-30T11:16:26Z")
Rainer wrote: > On 29 Jul., 19:26, Marvin G�lker [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) 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](http://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). 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](http://ruby-forum.com) and > everything you post to the mailing list is visible to the people on > [ruby-forum.com](http://ruby-forum.com). The same goes the other way round. Marvin ---
**Author:** ![rainer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/58956e/32.png) [@rainer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rainer)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 11:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wxruby-problem/172904/5 "2009-07-30T11:21:45Z")
Marvin Gülker wrote: > Are you using the mswin32 version of WxRuby? I run into problems > Sorry, I meant Ruby, not WxRuby. 🙂 Marvin ---
**Author:** ![rainer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/58956e/32.png) [@rainer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rainer)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 1:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wxruby-problem/172904/6 "2009-07-30T13:40:52Z")
On 30 Jul., 11:21, Marvin Gülker [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) 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 `' 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 `' 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 `' 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 `' 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 ---
**Author:** ![rainer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/58956e/32.png) [@rainer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rainer)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 5:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wxruby-problem/172904/7 "2009-07-30T17:15:45Z")
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](http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=26801&group_id=126&atid=575) Cheers, Rainer ---
**Author:** ![rainer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/58956e/32.png) [@rainer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rainer)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 3:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wxruby-problem/172904/8 "2009-07-30T15:13:28Z")
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 `' 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 `' 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 `' 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 `' 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](http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?atid=575&group_id=126&func=browse) Marvin