OK I filed an issue on the Jira tracker.
On Feb 1, 2:01 pm, Bret Pettichord <b...@pettichord.com> wrote: > Thank you for figuring out how to get Watir working (again) with cygwin. > If you could put this in Jira, then we'll be sure to look at fixing this > in the next release. > > Bret > > Arco wrote: > > On Cygwin, I ran into two separate problems that prevented Watir 1.6.2 > > from working. > > > First, the 'win32ole.so' file that ships with Watir appears to be > > incompatible with the version that is installed with my copy of Cygwin- > > ruby. (seehttp://pastie.org/374756) > > > An error message 'bad file permissions' was generated when trying to > > run 'x = Watir::IE.new' from within IRB. > > > My workaround was to copy the 'ruby' version of win32ole.so into the > > 'watir' directories. (seehttp://pastie.org/374865) > > > Once this was done, another error occured - relating to modal > > dialogs. (seehttp://pastie.org/374865) > > > This was fixed by commenting out 2 lines in the Watir source code: > > > File - modal_dialog.rb Line - 65 GetUnknown.call ... > > win32.rb:6 GetUnknown = Win32API.new(... > > > Once these lines were commented out, watir worked. > > > Ideas for fixes: > > - Fix the modal dialog issue with conditional execution: > > GetUnknown.call (...) unless RUBY_PLATFORM == 'i386- > > cygwin' > > GetUnknown=Win32APUI.new(... unless RUBY_PLATFORM == > > 'i386-cygwin' > > - Fix the win32ole issue by not bundling this file in the gem (??) > > - Cygwin support: > > either fully commit to supporting cygwin, or not > > I think it should be supported!!! > > run regression tests on cygwin before every release > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Watir General" group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
