Hello,
yesterday I switched from the very good, perfectly functional
one-click installer to a build-it-yourself-ruby-compile on winXP
with the mingw environment.
All went very smoothly.
Great documents on setting up mingw/msys here
http://mingw.org/MinGWiki/index.php/RealDumbQuickstart?PHPSESSID=0691a1dc17253ae9792187c3b78816ad
and Great documents on building ruby on windows here
Follow this up, by getting ruby-gnome2 setup with this wonderful doc
http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?Install+Guide+for+Windows
Mingw works! Ruby works! Ruby-Gnome works!
…rdoc doesnt work… ri doesnt work… gem doesnt either… big uhohs!!
Here is some output:
$> ruby -v
ruby 1.8.4 (2006-02-14) [i386-mingw32]
$>cd /c/ruby/build/ruby
$> make install-doc
Generating RDoc documentation
./miniruby.exe ./runruby.rb --extout=.ext – “./bin/rdoc” --all --ri
–op “C:/ruby/share/ri/1.8/system” “.”
c:/ruby/build/ruby/lib/tracer.rb:27:in (null)': undefined method []’
for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
from c:/ruby/build/ruby/lib/rdoc/parsers/parse_rb.rb:16:in
(null)' from c:/ruby/build/ruby/lib/rdoc/rdoc.rb:8:in (null)’
from ./bin/rdoc:59
make: *** [do-install-doc] Error 1
$> gem
sh: gem: command not found
$> rdoc
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/tracer.rb:27:in (null)': undefined method []’
for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/parsers/parse_rb.rb:16:in
(null)' from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/rdoc.rb:8:in (null)’
from c:/ruby/bin/rdoc:59
$> ri
Installing Documentation
‘ri’ uses a database of documentation built by the RDoc utility.
So, how do you install this documentation on your system? It depends on
how you installed Ruby.
If you installed Ruby from source files (that is, if it some point you
typed ‘make’ during the process :), you can install the RDoc
documentation yourself. Just go back to the place where you have your
Ruby source and type
make install-doc
You’ll probably need to do this as a superuser, as the documentation is
installed in the Ruby target tree (normally somewhere under
+/usr/local+.
If you installed Ruby from a binary distribution (perhaps using a
one-click installer, or using some other packaging system), then the
team that produced the package probably forgot to package the
documentation as well. Contact them, and see if they can add it to the
next release.
No ri documentation found in:
Was rdoc run to create documentation?
$>
Anyone know how to properly setup a ruby compile so that gem/ri/rdoc
will work as expected? Anyone have a clue why ‘make install-doc’ fails?
Thanks for any help.
