well it's not as if things were working that wonderfully so I'm not too terribly concerned.
I made a snapshot of the VM just in case I want to roll it back. just got back from lunch, so about to embark on the purge and re- install. On Jan 19, 12:06 pm, Charley Baker <charley.ba...@gmail.com> wrote: > I didn't have any problems updating, you can also use pik[1] to > install 1.8.7 and work on that without disturbing your current > installation. :) > > Charley Baker > Lead Developer, Watir,http://watir.com > > [1] pik :https://github.com/vertiginous/pik > > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Chuck van der Linden <sqa...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > 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 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
