Yeah, I'm having some problems installing too... I can do the compiling, I'll figure it out, but I can't figure out how I get the tools needed to do it, the win32 readme said I needed these: Note: building ruby requires following commands. * nmake * cl * lib * dumpbin I have nmake, but how do I acquire the others? Google isn't helping me. - Jayce -------------------------------------------------- From: "Michal Suchanek" <hramrach / centrum.cz> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 3:20 PM To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk / ruby-lang.org> Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby 1.9.1 is released > On 30/01/2009, Zayd Abdullah <devrubygem / gmail.com> wrote: >> Are there going to be a one click installer for this new version? I'm >> having >> trouble installing 1.9 >> > > The problem is not with Ruby itself but with the libraries it uses > (zlib for gems, readline for irb, openssl for encryption and https > networking, sqlite, ...) > > Most of these use unique build systems and have binaries built for > windows with different compilers. > > To link this all together with Ruby is a recipe for disaster. > > For that reason Luis is working on a new One Click installer which > builds all the libraries and ruby from source using the MinGW > compiler. > > Unfortunately not all of the libraries build well in the MinGW > environment out of the box (or on Windows at all) so the project > requires lots of tedious work. There are only development and testing > releases of this installer. As far as I know no final release that > includes at least all the basic parts is available. > > Thanks > > Michal > >