Ruby-mswin32

How to install

If you want to install the archive, extract it to your favorite directory (we call it $TOPDIR).
And after that, add $TOPDIR\bin to PATH environment variable.

Some extension libraries depend on DLLs that are not included theses packages.

curses.so : depend of PDCurses
dbm.so : depend on GDBM
gdbm.so : depend on GDBM
iconv.so : depend on Iconv
openssl.so : depend on OpenSSL
readline.so : depend on readline
tcltklib.so : depend on Tcl/Tk
zlib.so : depend on Zlib

You can get binaries of PDCurses, GDBM, OpenSSL, readline and Zlib at Porting Libraries to Win32.
You can get binary of Iconv at Meadowy.org; iconv-1.8.win32.zip
You can get binary of Tcl/Tk at ActiveState; ActiveTcl

When using the x64-mswin64 binary, you have to install this package.

Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 Redistributable Package (x64)

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Wolfgang Nadasi-Donner

After installing the package for Ruby 1.9 () I stated it an got the following error Message (Example):

H:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\interwolf\Desktop>ruby -e'puts "Hello"'
ruby: no such file to load -- ubygems (LoadError)

H:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\interwolf\Desktop>ruby --version
ruby 1.9.0 (2005-07-22) [i386-mswin32]

What went wrong?

Best regards, Wolfgang Nadasi-Donner

usa

Unset RUBYOPT environment variable.
It was set by RubyInstaller what you had installed before, I guess.

Kal

How do I install the dependent dlls? Do I just download the zip files and extract the dll files to "$TOPDIR\bin"? Some of the packages also contain other files (like exe files) in their respective "bin" directories; do I need those as well? What about ActiveTcl? That thing comes with an installer; so do I just install it through the installer or do I need to copy some files as well?

usa

Install them to the directory for which you hope. Of course, don't forget to set PATH for such directories. "$TOPDIR\bin" is one of the good choices.
If the dlls have their own installars, such as ActiveTcl, use the installers. They will set necessary environment variables.

Kal

I'm confused. >_<
Supposed I have extracted "ruby-1.8.4-i386-mswin32.zip" to "C:\Ruby\".
Now I download "zlib-1.1.4-1-mswin32.zip" and there is a "bin\zlib.dll" file in it.
Do I extract "zlib.dll" to "C:\Ruby\bin\" or do I put it elsewhere?

Claus Folke Brobak

I am wondering why the old "zlib-1.1.4" (zlib.dll) is required and not the newer "zlib-1.2.x" (zlib1.dll)? The "One-Click Installer" seems to use the newer "zlib-1.2.x". You can read more here: "http://www.zlib.net/DLL_FAQ.txt".
Thanks in advance!
Kind regards,
Claus

Bek

Renaming the file 'zlib1.dll' in '%your_ruby_install_path%/bin' in 'zlib.dll' should fix the problem.

I was heading to the official zlib release to copy it on own folder when I realized that the file was already here : it's the rubygems package that is using a wrong dll name...

Zuzi

After run commands of the Ruby, some error raided saying **.dll can not be found. eg. readline.dll when using irb. How to solve the problem? The version i use is 1.9.1 binary - mswin32.

Nick

These commands are barely legible. They don't spell out clear dependencies in that they don't include version numbers. At the very least the links should be directly to a file.

Eckhard

I got some error messages that indicates a problem with the OpenSSl library I downloaded via the link above.
In the opensll binary is a wrong library included (ssleay32.lib and not ssleay32.dll). The ssleay32.dll is not in the zip-file: openssl-0.9.8d-1-mswin32.zip. I used a newer openssl binary with the correct dll-file (openssl-0.9.8g_win32.zip). After that all problems are solved.

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