Error loading Ruby 2.0.0 (i386-mingw32) and tiny_tds 0.6.1 on windows 7

[Steffen Roller]

Although the *.so file is in there the gem cannot get loaded. Anybody else experienced that problem?

I read the discussion on Github about the support for Ruby 2 32/64bit but couldn't find useful information to solve my problem.

-st

[Luis Lavena]

Hello Steff,

On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Steffen Roller <steffen...@gmail.com> wrote:

Although the *.so file is in there the gem cannot get loaded. Anybody else experienced that problem?

tiny_tds 0.6.1 do not provide binaries for Ruby 2.0, only 1.9.3

The .so file cannot be loaded because is built for Ruby 1.9.3

 

I read the discussion on Github about the support for Ruby 2 32/64bit but couldn't find useful information to solve my problem.

It requires you compile freetds and then force also compilation of tiny_tds, too many steps.

I might recommend you stick to Ruby 1.9.3 if you're forced to use those gems until gem author uses things like rake-compiler-dev-box to create the required binaries.

Hope that helps.

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[Steffen Roller]

Hi Luis,

thank you. I wasn't aware that 0.6.1 supports only 1.9.3. Interestingly

gem install tiny_tds

under 2.0.0p247 gives you the aformentioned gem.

I'll stick to 1.9.3 for now.

-st

[Luis Lavena]

On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Steffen Roller <steffen...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Luis,

thank you. I wasn't aware that 0.6.1 supports only 1.9.3. Interestingly

gem install tiny_tds

This is discussed (in length) here:

https://github.com/rails-sqlserver/tiny_tds/issues/110

Starting with 0.6.x support for Ruby 1.8.7 was removed, so the binary gem no longer contained multiple binaries.

While Ruby 2.0 was released before that, rake-compiler cross-compilation wasn't fixed until a few months after, and thus, the tiny_tds that was built do not provide these binaries.

 

under 2.0.0p247 gives you the aformentioned gem.

I'll stick to 1.9.3 for now.

The gem you obtain is the one for the platform. There is a serious problem of binary gems and what got named "fat binaries" that contains support for each different version of Ruby (1.8.7, 1.9.3 and 2.0.0)

For example latest sqlite3 gem contains support for all 3 of those versions:

C:\Users\Luis\Desktop>gem fetch sqlite3

Fetching: sqlite3-1.3.8-x86-mingw32.gem (100%)

Downloaded sqlite3-1.3.8-x86-mingw32

C:\Users\Luis\Desktop>gem spec sqlite3-1.3.8-x86-mingw32.gem files

---

...

- lib/sqlite3/1.8/sqlite3_native.so

- lib/sqlite3/1.9/sqlite3_native.so

- lib/sqlite3/2.0/sqlite3_native.so

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