[ruby-fltk-users]Fwd: ruby-fltk-0.9.2 on WinXP

[Kurien M. <kur...@ya...>]

Hello,

Just wanted to share an update on the problem I reported earlier. The problem was due to Cygwin
crashing when loading libraries dynamically. To workaround it I tried switching to MSys (MinGW)
but that does not work either. 

I find that extconf.rb does not work as expected. Neither in MSys nor in a native WinXP console.
The source of the problem is the following line(s) in extconf.rb

system("#{fltk_config}......

Ruby MinGW (irrespective of the shell in which it is run) does not execute the above statement
successfully since fltk_config is not recognized as an executable. I tried the following values
for the variable fltk_config 
/usr/local/bin/fltk-config (WinXP) 
/c/usr/local/bin/fltk-config (MinGW) 
This failure cascades into other errors during "make".

If the executable "fltk-config" is replaced with say a batch file or any other executable
recognized by Windows(.exe,.bat) the statement succeeds for WinXP.

I am not sure what is the best way out. I wonder if it would be good to use standard tools for
configure instead of Ruby.

Kurien

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