"Lyle Johnson" <ljohnson / resgen.com> wrote in message news:<tlr2n28uj5n034 / corp.supernews.com>...
> > Any idea what might be wrong?  I've tried adding the
> > /home/ruby/lib/ruby/1.6/i386-cygwin/fox.so to my LD_LIBRARY_PATH but
> > this didn't help.  I don't think this is a cywgin1.dll clash because
> > all the other cygwin commands are working fine and ruby seems to be
> > working fine in all other respects.  It seems to be able to find the
> > library but there is an error in loading it...
> 
> <sigh>
> 
> This may be the last straw that drives me to take a look at Ruby's code for
> loading dynamic libraries on Cygwin and work-up a patch to provide *useful*
> error messages. There's no telling what "Error 127" means, is there?
> 
> You shouldn't need to add anything to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH; Ruby should be
> able to find that directory just fine. You may have to break down and build
> it (FOX and FXRuby) from the source code if you aren't using it with the
> regular Ruby 1.6 installer for Windows. I don't know why you'd get a Cygwin
> clash with FXRuby and not the others, unless it's because FXRuby uses the
> C++ library (whereas all of the standard Ruby extensions are C only) -- but
> that's a stretch.

I rebuilt FXRuby using gcc/cygwin and was able to load it into ruby
with the 173 version of fox I already had installed.  Rebuilding
FXRuby as you suggsted fixed the problem:

$ make install
fox.so -> /home/ruby/lib/ruby/1.6/i386-cygwin/fox.so
chmod 0555 /home/ruby/lib/ruby/1.6/i386-cygwin/fox.so
$ pwd
/home/FXRuby-0.99.173/ext/fox
$ irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'fox'
true
irb(main):002:0>



Thanks!

Robbie