nobu.nokada / softhome.net wrote: > Hi, > > At Tue, 2 Sep 2003 13:29:04 +0900, > Daniel Berger wrote: > >>I installed expat in c:\expat-1.95.6 (using the >>windows installer for expat). No problem. The >>expat.h (and other source files) are located in >>c:\expat-1.95.6\source\lib. >> >>I verified that there's a "dir_config 'quixml'" - >>there is. So, I tried this: >> >>ruby extconf.rb >>--with-quixml-dir=c:/expat-1.95.6/source. That didn't >>work. Looking at the mkmf.log file I see this: > > > Use --with-quixml-include=c:/expat-1.95.6/source/lib and > --with-quixml-lib=c:/expat-1.95.6/source/lib. > > mkmf.rb expects headers are placed in "include" and libraries > are in "lib" respectively. > > >>PS - I noticed that extconf.rb does not like >>backslashes in directory names, e.g. >>--with-quixml-dir=c:\expat-1.95.6\source. I had to >>use '\\' to get that to work properly. Is that proper behavior? > > > Yes, \ is used to escape meta-characters, e.g. space. Thanks for the quick reply Nobu. I will fold this information into the README shortly. Sean O'Dell