How to install nokogiri gem for win64 ruby?

[Felix Petriconi]

Hi,

I am trying to get the Ruby installation running as native 64 bit application. So far I was capable of getting Ruby and the DevKit build and running smooth together with mingw64 4.7.1.

As well I was capable of getting certain GEMs and some of the, like Cucumber build fine with the DevKit. Great so far (thanks to the work the contributors to the rubyinstaller has done!)

Then I tried to install nokogiri and now I am stuck.

I already compiled libiconv and libxml2 (hopefully successful.) But I assume that I did something wrong during that process because I get error message that libxml2/parser.h cannot be found even I pass it as extra parameter with --with-xml2-include pointing to the include folder, etc when I try to install the nokogiri GEM.

Has here someone a recipe of how to build it correctly so that it works together with the DevKit?

As a side note, I saw that the innosetup task in inno.rake uses the "ProgramFiles" environment variable. But the "Inno Setup 5" on a Win7 64 system is located in "ProgramFiles(x86)" path.

Many thanks in advance and regards,

Felix

[Luis Lavena]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Felix Petriconi
<felix.p...@mevis.de> wrote:
> Hi,

Hello,

> I am trying to get the Ruby installation running as native 64 bit
> application. So far I was capable of getting Ruby and the DevKit build and
> running smooth together with mingw64 4.7.1.
>

Nice!

Can you tell us which version of Ruby? have you tried the automated
builds instead?

Please note that Ruby 1.9.3 still lacks some backports for better x64
support, 2.0 on the other hand have all those and pass all tests.

> As well I was capable of getting certain GEMs and some of the, like Cucumber
> build fine with the DevKit. Great so far (thanks to the work the
> contributors to the rubyinstaller has done!)
>
> Then I tried to install nokogiri and now I am stuck.
> I already compiled libiconv and libxml2 (hopefully successful.) But I assume
> that I did something wrong during that process because I get error message
> that libxml2/parser.h cannot be found even I pass it as extra parameter with
> --with-xml2-include pointing to the include folder, etc when I try to
> install the nokogiri GEM.
>
> Has here someone a recipe of how to build it correctly so that it works
> together with the DevKit?
>

You will need libiconv and zlib Knapsack packages (search the group)

Once you have it those in the PATH (see Knapsack announcement on env
variables usage) you can clone Nokogiri repository and build locally.

Nokogiri uses mini_portile to build a static version of libxml2 and
libxslt. Perhaps a Knapsack recipe can be provided to avoid the manual
build process...

>
> As a side note, I saw that the innosetup task in inno.rake uses the
> "ProgramFiles" environment variable. But the "Inno Setup 5" on a Win7 64
> system is located in "ProgramFiles(x86)" path.
>

Thanks, we haven't modified the InnoSetup scripts to handle x64 installers yet.
--
Luis Lavena
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[Felix Petriconi]

On Tuesday, September 18, 2012 8:00:14 PM UTC+2, Luis Lavena wrote:

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Felix Petriconi
<felix.p...@mevis.de> wrote:
> Hi,

Hello,

> I am trying to get the Ruby installation running as native 64 bit
> application. So far I was capable of getting Ruby and the DevKit build and
> running smooth together with mingw64 4.7.1.
>

Nice!

Can you tell us which version of Ruby? have you tried the automated
builds instead?

The result was a ruby 1.9.3p194 (2012-04-20) [x64-mingw32].
No I did not try the build from the Jenkins system, if that was your question.
As well the installer was not build even I tried different rake parameter and InnoSetup was available in the path. But at the end I picked the created Ruby installation. I did not dig into this deeper.
 

Please note that Ruby 1.9.3 still lacks some backports for better x64
support, 2.0 on the other hand have all those and pass all tests.

Thanks for the hint. I will give it a try. I assume that the rake parameter is then "rake ruby20"? 

> As well I was capable of getting certain GEMs and some of the, like Cucumber
> build fine with the DevKit. Great so far (thanks to the work the
> contributors to the rubyinstaller has done!)
>
> Then I tried to install nokogiri and now I am stuck.
> I already compiled libiconv and libxml2 (hopefully successful.) But I assume
> that I did something wrong during that process because I get error message
> that libxml2/parser.h cannot be found even I pass it as extra parameter with
> --with-xml2-include pointing to the include folder, etc when I try to
> install the nokogiri GEM.
>
> Has here someone a recipe of how to build it correctly so that it works
> together with the DevKit?
>

You will need libiconv and zlib Knapsack packages (search the group)

Once you have it those in the PATH (see Knapsack announcement on env
variables usage) you can clone Nokogiri repository and build locally.

Nokogiri uses mini_portile to build a static version of libxml2 and
libxslt. Perhaps a Knapsack recipe can be provided to avoid the manual
build process...

I will try it. Thanks for sharing! 

 

>
> As a side note, I saw that the innosetup task in inno.rake uses the
> "ProgramFiles" environment variable. But the "Inno Setup 5" on a Win7 64
> system is located in "ProgramFiles(x86)" path.
>

Thanks, we haven't modified the InnoSetup scripts to handle x64 installers yet.
--
Luis Lavena
AREA 17 

Thanks and best regards,
Felix Petriconi