I'll give that a shot. It might fix the other issue I'm having which is an outright 'crash' of the ruby CLI which appears to be caused by the OS thinking it's accessing memory it shouldn't (it appears that the OS shuts it down due to a DEP violation (Data Execution Prevention)
gah this is going to be a fest of uninstall-install I bet.. wheeeee On Jan 19, 11:38 am, Charley Baker <charley.ba...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey Chuck, > > I'd suggest you look at Ruby 1.8.7 with devkit installed. Watir > itself doesn't have any need to compile things, it's the win32api and > other dependencies which may be set up wrong with Ruby, mingw or > mswin32 specific versions. There are ways to fat compile binaries > which some projects are starting to do. With current 1.8.6 one click > installer I haven't seen the need to compile anything, though that may > have changed recently, I know Daniel Berger has been doing some work > on the win32 gems. Are you using 1.8.7 or newer builds of Ruby? > > There's going to be a little bit of chaos as we switch in the Windows > community from the old one click installer and gems built with MSVC6 > over to the newer paradigm and the mingw tool chain. Just a thought > anyhow. > > Charley Baker > Lead Developer, Watir,http://watir.com > > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Chuck van der Linden <sqa...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Do we have a version that has everything already compiled for Windows? > > > I'm trying to get a windows server 2008 system setup to run watir > > scripts, and when I try to install anything newer than 1.6.2 it starts > > trying to find nmake.exe and cl.exe which are not anywhere on this > > box as it is setup to emulate a webserver were our product would be > > deployed, and there is no visual studio or any other flavor of > > compiler etc installed on the system. > > > The exact error I'm getting (after having hunted down and installed an > > old version of nmake) looks like this > > ---=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > C:\Users\Chuckv\DOWNLO~1>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 -O2b2xg- -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-1.4.8 for inspection. > > Results logged to C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/win32-api-1.4.8/ext/ > > gem_make.out > > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > > On Jan 10, 12:11 am, Jarmo <jarm...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello everyone! > > >> Just released a new version of Watir - 1.7.1. > > >> This version fixes a bug with Watir::IE.start_process and/or > >> Watir::IE.new_process. Updating Watir is recommended even if you didn't use > >> any of these methods. > > >> == Version 1.7.1 - 2011/01/10 > > >> === IE improvements > > >> * Fixed Watir::IE.start_process/new_process. Doesn't completely > >> closehttp://jira.openqa.org/browse/WTR-472(JarmoPertman) > > >> === Firefox improvements > > >> - Nothing > > >> Whole Changelog is available > >> athttp://github.com/bret/watir/compare/v1.7.1...v1.7.0 > > >> Watir Development Team > > > -- > > Before posting, please readhttp://watir.com/support. In short: search > > before you ask, be nice. > > > watir-general@googlegroups.com > >http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general > > watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. watir-general@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
