Nice job to make it work. I have had also some thoughts to try it out on
1.9.2 but haven't got the time to do that. I was aware that there is no
prebuilt binary for win32 gems also.

marekj: in Windows there is pik to have multiple installations of Ruby :)
Check it out https://github.com/vertiginous/pik

Just gave it a try and failed:

C:\Users\jarmo>gem install win32-api --no-rdoc --no-ri --platform=RUBY
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing win32-api:
        ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

C:/Users/jarmo/.pik/rubies/Ruby-192dev-preview3-1/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb
checking for strncpy_s()... *** extconf.rb failed ***
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of
necessary libraries and/or headers.  Check the mkmf.log file for more
details.  You may need configuration options.

Provided configuration options:
        --with-opt-dir
        --without-opt-dir
        --with-opt-include
        --without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
        --with-opt-lib
        --without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
        --with-make-prog
        --without-make-prog
        --srcdir=.
        --curdir
        --ruby=C:/Users/jarmo/.pik/rubies/Ruby-192dev-preview3-1/bin/ruby
C:/Users/jarmo/.pik/rubies/Ruby-192dev-preview3-1/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:368:in
`try_do': The complier failed to generate an executable file. (Runtime
Error)
You have to install development tools first.
        from
C:/Users/jarmo/.pik/rubies/Ruby-192dev-preview3-1/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:435:in
`try_link0'
        from
C:/Users/jarmo/.pik/rubies/Ruby-192dev-preview3-1/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:440:in
`try_link'
        from
C:/Users/jarmo/.pik/rubies/Ruby-192dev-preview3-1/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:552:in
`try_func'
        from
C:/Users/jarmo/.pik/rubies/Ruby-192dev-preview3-1/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:797:in
`block in have_func'
        from
C:/Users/jarmo/.pik/rubies/Ruby-192dev-preview3-1/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:693:in
`block in checking_for'
        from
C:/Users/jarmo/.pik/rubies/Ruby-192dev-preview3-1/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:280:in
`block (2 levels) in postpone'
        from
C:/Users/jarmo/.pik/rubies/Ruby-192dev-preview3-1/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:254:in
`open'
        from
C:/Users/jarmo/.pik/rubies/Ruby-192dev-preview3-1/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:280:in
`block in postpone'
        from
C:/Users/jarmo/.pik/rubies/Ruby-192dev-preview3-1/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:254:in
`open'
        from
C:/Users/jarmo/.pik/rubies/Ruby-192dev-preview3-1/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:276:in
`postpone'
        from
C:/Users/jarmo/.pik/rubies/Ruby-192dev-preview3-1/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:692:in
`checking_for'
        from
C:/Users/jarmo/.pik/rubies/Ruby-192dev-preview3-1/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:796:in
`have_func'
        from extconf.rb:9:in `<main>'


Gem files will remain installed in
C:/Users/jarmo/.pik/rubies/Ruby-192dev-preview3-1/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/win32-api-1.4.6
for inspection.
Results logged to
C:/Users/jarmo/.pik/rubies/Ruby-192dev-preview3-1/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/win32-api-1.4.6/ext/gem_make.out

C:\Users\jarmo>ruby -v
ruby 1.9.2dev (2010-05-31) [i386-mingw32]

I have devkit installed of course and it has built something for me before.

Jarmo

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 2:52 PM, marekj <[email protected]> wrote:

> I've done this experiment too  on Win7 with Ruby 1.9.2 and DevKit 4.5
> I installed into c:/ruby192 and c:/rubydevkit450 respectively
> I also have c:/ruby186 for my regular ruby.
> So if I want to swtich  ruby env I have to adjust the PATH (either
> c:\ruby1xx\bin) and reboot. ( I use rvm for linux and it switches ruby
> env great)
>
> I ran my watirloo tests successfully on 1.9.2 . The only problem is
> that I get segfault when I run threaded tests when I drive multiple
> browsers.
> https://github.com/marekj/watirloo/blob/master/spec/browser_threads_spec.rb
> all others ran find (on IE8)
>
> Warning: before running tests I have to adjust load path since ruby
> 1.9.2 no longer puts current dir on load path
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2900370/why-does-ruby-1-9-2-remove-from-load-path-and-whats-the-alternative
> This ended up trivial, very easy change.
> here is an example of global replace
>
> https://github.com/jeremyevans/sequel/commit/36eabe31d10f0e9ee71ce1063852939807f446ea
>
> My change is like this
> -require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/spec_helper'
> +require File.dirname(File.expand_path(__FILE__)) + '/spec_helper'
>
> One thing I did not try yet is modal dialogs and js popups tests.
> Not sure if autoit works.
>
>
> marekj
>
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