It should work fine now, Dan just uploaded an x86-mswin32 precompiled binary.
-c On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Charley Baker <charley.ba...@gmail.com>wrote: > There's something wrong with the current gem requires and win32-api. I'll > check into it. Use the hack below to get at the previous version until I > have a chance to fix this. > > -c > > > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:21 AM, mellissa > <mellissa.mcconn...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hey Alan, >> >> Thanks for posting this workaround. I was experiencing a similar issue >> with a fresh install but rolling back the win32 api fixed it. >> >> My errors posted below, but in the same vein: >> >> ----------- >> C:\>gem install watir >> Building native extensions. This could take a while... >> ERROR: Error installing watir: >> ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. >> >> C:/Ruby/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb >> checking for strncpy_s()... no >> creating Makefile >> >> nmake >> >> Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 1.50 >> Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-94. All rights reserved. >> >> cl -nologo -I. -I. -IC:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-mswin32 -I. -MD >> -Zi -O2b2 >> xg- -G6 -c -Tcwin32/api.c >> 'cl' is not recognized as an internal or external command, >> operable program or batch file. >> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe' : return code >> '0x1' >> Stop. >> >> >> Gem files will remain installed in C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ >> win32-api-1.4. >> 6 for inspection. >> Results logged to C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/win32-api-1.4.6/ext/ >> gem_make.out >> ----------- >> >> Thanks again! >> >> mellissa >> >> On Feb 9, 3:04 pm, Alan Baird <alan.ba...@riskmetrics.com> wrote: >> > All - >> > >> > Maybe I'm the only one that is having this problem but as I was trying >> to install Watir today from a fresh install (using ruby 1.8.6 and >> downloading the rubygems installer), I get the following message: >> > >> > Y:\abaird\ruby_install\rubygems-1.3.5\rubygems-1.3.5>gem install watir >> > Building native extensions. This could take a while... >> > ERROR: Error installing watir: >> > ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. >> > >> > c:/ruby/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb >> > checking for strncpy_s()... no >> > creating Makefile >> > >> > nmake >> > 'nmake' is not recognized as an internal or external command, >> > operable program or batch file. >> > >> > Gem files will remain installed in >> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/win32-api-1.4.6 for inspection. >> > Results logged to >> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/win32-api-1.4.6/ext/gem_make.out >> > >> > It looks like according to this: >> http://gems.rubyforge.org/gems/win32-apithat there might be some version >> conflict in the recent versions. >> > >> > However, if you do a 'gem install win32-api -v 1.4.5' followed by 'gem >> install watir' everything should work out fine. >> > >> > Also, can anyone tell me why watir has a dependency on gemcutter? I >> thought that maybe it was because watir was hosted on GitHub, but I can't >> install it when GitHub is my only gem source so maybe it's for another gem? >> > >> > Just curious. >> > >> > Alan >> > >> > This email message and any attachments are for the sole use of the >> intended recipients and may contain proprietary and/or confidential >> information which may be privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure. >> Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If >> you are not an intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email >> and destroy the original message and any copies of the message as well as >> any attachments to the original message. >> >> -- >> 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<watir-general%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general >> > > -- 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
