watir install fubared by win32-api-1.4.6 ??

[Alan Baird]

All -

Maybe I'm the only one that is having this problem but as I was trying to install Watir today from a fresh install (using ruby 1.8.6 and downloading the rubygems installer), I get the following message:

Y:\abaird\ruby_install\rubygems-1.3.5\rubygems-1.3.5>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
'nmake' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

Gem files will remain installed in c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/win32-api-1.4.6 for inspection.
Results logged to c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/win32-api-1.4.6/ext/gem_make.out

It looks like according to this: http://gems.rubyforge.org/gems/win32-api that there might be some version conflict in the recent versions.

However, if you do a 'gem install win32-api -v 1.4.5' followed by 'gem install watir' everything should work out fine.

Also, can anyone tell me why watir has a dependency on gemcutter? I thought that maybe it was because watir was hosted on GitHub, but I can't install it when GitHub is my only gem source so maybe it's for another gem?

Just curious.

Alan

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[mellissa]

Hey Alan,

Thanks for posting this workaround. I was experiencing a similar issue
with a fresh install but rolling back the win32 api fixed it.

My errors posted below, but in the same vein:

-----------
C:\>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 -O2b2
xg- -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.
6 for inspection.
Results logged to C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/win32-api-1.4.6/ext/
gem_make.out
-----------

Thanks again!

mellissa

On Feb 9, 3:04 pm, Alan Baird <alan.ba...@riskmetrics.com> wrote:
> All -
>
> Maybe I'm the only one that is having this problem but as I was trying to install Watir today from a fresh install (using ruby 1.8.6 and downloading the rubygems installer), I get the following message:
>
> Y:\abaird\ruby_install\rubygems-1.3.5\rubygems-1.3.5>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
> 'nmake' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
>
> Gem files will remain installed in c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/win32-api-1.4.6 for inspection.
> Results logged to c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/win32-api-1.4.6/ext/gem_make.out
>

> It looks like according to this:http://gems.rubyforge.org/gems/win32-apithat there might be some version conflict in the recent versions.

[Charley Baker]

There's something wrong with the current gem requires and win32-api. I'll check into it. Use the hack below to get at the previous version until I have a chance to fix this.

-c

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[Charley Baker]

It should work fine now, Dan just uploaded an x86-mswin32 precompiled binary.

-c