On 4/18/06, Chris Scharf <scharfie / gmail.com> wrote:
> I have finally managed to build the ruby-ldap library for the Windows
> platform (i.e. not a cygwin or ming build, but an mswin32 build).
>
> This has been an issue for awhile as the maintainer of the project does
> not have access to a Windows machine for testing.
>
> So far, it seems to be working (I use it only for ActiveDirectory
> authentication).
>
> Anyway, if you are like me and have been struggling to get ldap working
> on the mswin32 build, please try the pre-built package:
>
> Download:
> http://webtest.wvu.edu/users/cbscharf/ldap/
>
> Put ldap.so in:
> C:\ruby\lib\ruby\site_ruby\1.8\i386-msvcrt
>
> Put *.rb in:
> C:\ruby\lib\ruby\site_ruby\1.8\ldap
>
> I believe these are the proper locations.  Hopefully this helps someone
> out there :-)
>
> Note: This was build using 0.9.4 of ruby-ldap on WinXP SP2.
>

I would LOVE to know how you managed this. I struck out hard on
several occasions, and I'd like to learn from my mistakes.

--Wilson.