So, I can't for the life of my get this working properly. My ultimate goal is to get the dbd-odbc gem installed and working, and from multiple things I've read, I need to install the ODBC binding for ruby alongside the dbd-odbc gem. Well, I can get the dbd-odbc gem installed just fine, but when it comes to trying to install the binding it tanks out on me like so:
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR: Error installing ruby-odbc-0.9998.gem:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.`
c:/tools/ruby/ruby-1.9.1-p376/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb
checking for version.h... *** extconf.rb failed ***
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of
necessary libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more
details. You may need configuration options.
Provided configuration options:
--with-opt-dir
--without-opt-dir
--with-opt-include
--without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
--with-opt-lib
--without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
--with-make-prog
--srcdir=.
--curdir
--ruby=c:/tools/ruby/ruby-1.9.1-p376/bin/ruby
--with-odbc-dir
--without-odbc-dir
--with-odbc-include
--without-odbc-include=${odbc-dir}/include
--with-odbc-lib
--without-odbc-lib=${odbc-dir}/lib
c:/tools/ruby/ruby-1.9.1-p376/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:364:in 'try_do': The complier failed to generate an executable file. (RuntimeError)
You have to install development tools first.
from c:/tools/ruby/ruby-1.9.1-p376/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:433:in 'try_cpp'
from c:/tools/ruby/ruby-1.9.1-p376/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:811:in 'block in have_header'
from c:/tools/ruby/ruby-1.9.1-p376/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:670:in 'block in checking_for'
from c:/tools/ruby/ruby-1.9.1-p376/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:276:in 'block (2 levels) in postpone'
from c:/tools/ruby/ruby-1.9.1-p376/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:250:in 'open'
from c:/tools/ruby/ruby-1.9.1-p376/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:276:in 'block in postpone'
from c:/tools/ruby/ruby-1.9.1-p376/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:250:in 'open'
from c:/tools/ruby/ruby-1.9.1-p376/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:272:in 'postpone'
from c:/tools/ruby/ruby-1.9.1-p376/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:669:in 'checking_for'
from c:/tools/ruby/ruby-1.9.1-p376/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:810:in 'have_header'
from extconf.rb:22:in ''
So...reading through it, it says I have to install the development tools first. Fine and dandy. I go here, and grab the dev kit. I wander here, and read through the instructions on how to install it. I install it.
On a side note - I've tried this with a one-click install of 1.9.1 from the ruby installer site. I've tried this with precompiled mswin-32 binaries of ruby, under 1.8.6, 1.8.7 and 1.9.1. None of them have worked.
I'll stick with the one-click installer since that's what all the instructions I've come across the web seem to be using. Fine. It says to edit my fstab file. I do. Here's my current setup:
My ruby installation is sitting in: C:\tools\ruby\ruby19 The devkit has been extracted into this directory, and I can check the /bin and see gcc.bat, make.bat and sh.bat in there.
I follow the directions and modify my devkit/msys/1.0.11/etc/fstab file. It now looks like this:C:/tools/ruby/ruby19/devkit/gcc/3.4.5 /mingw
C:/tools/ruby/ruby19/devkit/msys/1.0.11/usr/local /usr/local
No matter what I seem to do, I cannot for the life of me get the odbc binding gem to compile to native extensions. I keep getting the same error over and over. This is getting highly frustrating - please help!
