I'd be interested if you can take notes, which you might be planning already. :)
Cheers, Charley On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Chuck van der Linden <sqa...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. 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