Gem Update issues

11175 · September 21, 2008, 2:14am

O.k., I'm running an XP SP3 box and have installed ruby 186-26 and gems 1.1.1 (Had to ditch 1.2, because I kept getting errors with it)

Anyways, funny story goes like this:

I can't do this: C:\WebSite\N2N>gem update Updating installed gems Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org/ Updating hpricot Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError) ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

c:/ruby/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb update checking for stdio.h... no *** 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:/ruby/bin/ruby

Gem files will remain installed in c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/hpricot-0.6.16 1 for inspection. Results logged to c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/hpricot-0.6.161/ext/fast_xs/gem _make.out

BUT, I can do this: C:\WebSite\N2N>gem update --system Updating RubyGems Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org/ Nothing to update

And, I successfully used gem install, to install Watir.

My current issue, is trying to install sqlit3-ruby... It just doesn't want to do it, and I've already added the 3 required files to the bin directory.

Any ideas!? I'm familiar with stdio.h, as it's the input/output header for C - is it not a default header/include in windows? (Especially with .NET and Visual Studio installed) Or does the stdio.h have to be located in another ruby/gem dependent directory?

Thanx!

11175 · September 21, 2008, 3:14am

John Bailey wrote:

O.k., I'm running an XP SP3 box and have installed ruby 186-26 and gems 1.1.1 (Had to ditch 1.2, because I kept getting errors with it)

Anyways, funny story goes like this:

I can't do this: C:\WebSite\N2N>gem update Updating installed gems Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org/ Updating hpricot Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError) ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

c:/ruby/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb update checking for stdio.h... no *** 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:/ruby/bin/ruby

Gem files will remain installed in c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/hpricot-0.6.16 1 for inspection. Results logged to c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/hpricot-0.6.161/ext/fast_xs/gem _make.out

BUT, I can do this: C:\WebSite\N2N>gem update --system Updating RubyGems Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org/ Nothing to update

And, I successfully used gem install, to install Watir.

My current issue, is trying to install sqlit3-ruby... It just doesn't want to do it, and I've already added the 3 required files to the bin directory.

Any ideas!? I'm familiar with stdio.h, as it's the input/output header for C - is it not a default header/include in windows? (Especially with .NET and Visual Studio installed) Or does the stdio.h have to be located in another ruby/gem dependent directory?

Thanx!

Sorry, forgot to include error dump from sqlite3 install:

C:\>gem install sqlite3-ruby Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing sqlite3-ruby: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

c:/ruby/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb install sqlite3-ruby checking for fdatasync() in rt.lib... no checking for sqlite3.h... no

nmake 'nmake' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Gem files will remain installed in c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sqlite3-ruby-1 .2.4 for inspection. Results logged to c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sqlite3-ruby-1.2.4/ext/sqlite3_ api/gem_make.out

So, I'm missing: nmake stdio.h fdatasync in rt.lib

I have VS C++ 2008 Express installed, so that negates the pretense of not having a C compiler installed. Nmake, I'm going to d/l from microsoft, but I doubt that that will find a resolution to these issues.

11175 · September 21, 2008, 3:31am

John Bailey wrote:

Sorry, forgot to include error dump from sqlite3 install:

C:\>gem install sqlite3-ruby Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing sqlite3-ruby: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

c:/ruby/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb install sqlite3-ruby checking for fdatasync() in rt.lib... no checking for sqlite3.h... no

nmake 'nmake' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Gem files will remain installed in c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sqlite3-ruby-1 .2.4 for inspection. Results logged to c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sqlite3-ruby-1.2.4/ext/sqlite3_ api/gem_make.out

So, I'm missing: nmake stdio.h fdatasync in rt.lib

I have VS C++ 2008 Express installed, so that negates the pretense of not having a C compiler installed. Nmake, I'm going to d/l from microsoft, but I doubt that that will find a resolution to these issues.

O.k., so I d/l nmake from Micro$haft and all I get is a Zlib Buffer error... I don't even get to the stdio.h issue, anymore. Any ideas?

Frederick_Cheung · September 21, 2008, 7:55am

John Bailey wrote:

Sorry, forgot to include error dump from sqlite3 install:

C:\>gem install sqlite3-ruby Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing sqlite3-ruby: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

c:/ruby/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb install sqlite3-ruby checking for fdatasync() in rt.lib... no checking for sqlite3.h... no

nmake 'nmake' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Gem files will remain installed in c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sqlite3-ruby-1 .2.4 for inspection. Results logged to c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sqlite3-ruby-1.2.4/ext/sqlite3_ api/gem_make.out

So, I'm missing: nmake stdio.h fdatasync in rt.lib

I have VS C++ 2008 Express installed, so that negates the pretense of not having a C compiler installed. Nmake, I'm going to d/l from microsoft, but I doubt that that will find a resolution to these
issues.

O.k., so I d/l nmake from Micro$haft and all I get is a Zlib Buffer error... I don't even get to the stdio.h issue, anymore. Any ideas? --

For things to work nicely you need the c compiler used to build ruby,
which for the standard ruby installed is visual c 6. You also need the
headers and so pm for sqlite3 (which you can get off the sqlite3
website) Fred

Frederick_Cheung · September 21, 2008, 8:09am

John Bailey wrote:

Sorry, forgot to include error dump from sqlite3 install:

C:\>gem install sqlite3-ruby Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing sqlite3-ruby: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

c:/ruby/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb install sqlite3-ruby checking for fdatasync() in rt.lib... no checking for sqlite3.h... no

nmake 'nmake' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Gem files will remain installed in c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sqlite3-ruby-1 .2.4 for inspection. Results logged to c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sqlite3-ruby-1.2.4/ext/sqlite3_ api/gem_make.out

So, I'm missing: nmake stdio.h fdatasync in rt.lib

I have VS C++ 2008 Express installed, so that negates the pretense
of not having a C compiler installed. Nmake, I'm going to d/l from microsoft, but I doubt that that will find a resolution to these
issues.

O.k., so I d/l nmake from Micro$haft and all I get is a Zlib Buffer error... I don't even get to the stdio.h issue, anymore. Any ideas? --

For things to work nicely you need the c compiler used to build
ruby, which for the standard ruby installed is visual c 6. You also
need the headers and so pm for sqlite3 (which you can get off the
sqlite3 website) Fred

Oh you should also be able to get prebuilt gems. Installing them one
at a time might help

Fred

11175 · September 21, 2008, 2:48pm

Frederick Cheung wrote:

Building native extensions. This could take a while...

So, I'm missing:

O.k., so I d/l nmake from Micro$haft and all I get is a Zlib Buffer error... I don't even get to the stdio.h issue, anymore. Any ideas? --

For things to work nicely you need the c compiler used to build
ruby, which for the standard ruby installed is visual c 6. You also
need the headers and so pm for sqlite3 (which you can get off the
sqlite3 website) Fred

Oh you should also be able to get prebuilt gems. Installing them one at a time might help

Fred

Yes, I can install pre-built gems, and have installed these: Watir RSpec

..but if I want to make sure they're updated, I run into numerous errors.

After a search for stdio.h, I find it in: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include

So, I *do* have the include header file, I'm just unsure as to where ruby *requires* it to be. There shouldn't be that much of a dramatic difference between VC6 and VC9 header files (though, I could be wrong, with revision updates/method changes) - but I *do* have the file... ...which brings me back to my original problem:

How do I fix the issue, without *having* to install VC 6? And how can I address the other issue of the Zlib error, after upgrading to rails 1.2 or dropping nmaker into the ruby bin? (Both of these reproduce the Zlib error... ...rails 1.1.1 works fine, save for the stdio.h error)

11175 · September 21, 2008, 2:59pm

John Bailey wrote:

C:\>gem install watir Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org/ Successfully installed win32-api-1.2.0-x86-mswin32-60 Successfully installed windows-api-0.2.4 Successfully installed windows-pr-0.9.3 Successfully installed win32-process-0.5.9 Successfully installed watir-1.5.6 5 gems installed Installing ri documentation for win32-api-1.2.0-x86-mswin32-60... Installing ri documentation for windows-api-0.2.4... Installing ri documentation for windows-pr-0.9.3... Installing ri documentation for win32-process-0.5.9... Installing ri documentation for watir-1.5.6... Installing RDoc documentation for win32-api-1.2.0-x86-mswin32-60... Installing RDoc documentation for windows-api-0.2.4... Installing RDoc documentation for windows-pr-0.9.3... Installing RDoc documentation for win32-process-0.5.9... Installing RDoc documentation for watir-1.5.6...

C:\>gem install sqlite3-ruby Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org/ Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing sqlite3-ruby: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

c:/ruby/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb install sqlite3-ruby checking for fdatasync() in rt.lib... no checking for sqlite3.h... no

nmake

NMAKE : fatal error U1073: don't know how to make 'ruby.h' Stop.

Gem files will remain installed in c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sqlite3-ruby-1 .2.4 for inspection. Results logged to c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sqlite3-ruby-1.2.4/ext/sqlite3_ api/gem_make.out

Is the header (sqlite3.h) a fourth required file, now!? And how to I update the rt.lib to reflect fdatasync()? And why is it trying to make a new ruby header - shouldn't it exist, already!?

11175 · September 21, 2008, 3:44pm

John Bailey wrote:

C:\>gem update rt.lib Updating installed gems Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org/ Nothing to update

So, I get an error for something not being in rt.lib, but gem update tells me that rt.lib is the freshest package on the block... wtf!?

I know it seems a bit redundant, me asking these questions, but I *have* used my good 'ole friend Google, to no avail.

Here's the dump, from the local query:

C:\>gem query --local

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

actionmailer (2.1.1) actionpack (2.1.1) activerecord (2.1.1) activeresource (2.1.1) activesupport (2.1.1) fxri (0.3.6) fxruby (1.6.12) hpricot (0.6) log4r (1.0.5) rails (2.1.1) rake (0.8.2, 0.7.3) rspec (1.1.4) sources (0.0.1) watir (1.5.6) win32-api (1.2.0, 1.0.4) win32-clipboard (0.4.3) win32-dir (0.3.2) win32-eventlog (0.4.6) win32-file (0.5.4) win32-file-stat (1.2.7) win32-process (0.5.9, 0.5.3) win32-sapi (0.1.4) win32-sound (0.4.1) windows-api (0.2.4, 0.2.0) windows-pr (0.9.3, 0.7.2)

Here's the result from the cleanup, with dry-run option:

C:\>gem cleanup -d Cleaning up installed gems... Dry Run Mode: Would uninstall rake-0.7.3 Dry Run Mode: Would uninstall win32-process-0.5.3 Dry Run Mode: Would uninstall windows-pr-0.7.2 Dry Run Mode: Would uninstall windows-api-0.2.0 Dry Run Mode: Would uninstall win32-api-1.0.4-x86-mswin32 Clean Up Complete

*This one confuses me, since those packages are for Watir, and I *believe* that RSpec is dependent on those packages. I could be wrong, though, wouldn't be the first time.

See, I need Sqlite3, Watir and RSpec to all be installed. The other packages, I could really care less about, but being an avid coder: I understand the necessity for having the recent/updated packages.

So, how can I address this, without the default answers/no0b answers?

The general/FAQ answers, I've already tried... ...it's why I aforementioned already having Visual Studio C++ 2008 Express installed; I knew that having a C compiler would come up... ...and I've had to illustrate that I already have one installed and that the 'stdio.h' *does* exist, within the system.

I also used the gem update dump to illustrate that gem is telling me that I don't *need* to update rt.lib, even though it's missing a method reference. Will I have to hand code this method reference, in the rt.lib?

Is there another gem package that I *should* have, but I'm unaware of it's dependency? (I typically use the --include-dependencies flag, but given that these types of errors are being generated, a dependency could not be flagged - that I actually need.)

Thanks for the help!

Frederick_Cheung · September 21, 2008, 5:24pm

John Bailey wrote:

C:\>gem update rt.lib Updating installed gems Bulk updating Gem source index for:http://gems.rubyforge.org/ Nothing to update

So, I get an error for something not being in rt.lib, but gem update tells me that rt.lib is the freshest package on the block... wtf!?

rt.lib, whatever it is, isn't a gem so trying to gem update it does nothing.

*This one confuses me, since those packages are for Watir, and I *believe* that RSpec is dependent on those packages. I could be wrong, though, wouldn't be the first time.

That's normal: it's telling you that you've got multiple versions of those packages are installed and that it would just go ahead and remove the old versions.

The general/FAQ answers, I've already tried... ...it's why I aforementioned already having Visual Studio C++ 2008 Express installed; I knew that having a C compiler would come up... ...and I've had to illustrate that I already have one installed and that the 'stdio.h' *does* exist, within the system.

It's more complicated than that: if the extensions isn't built with the version that was used to build ruby then nothing good will happen. You probably also need to play with vcvars32.bar (which sets the appropriate environment variables for where the compiler is and all that sort of thing (Technical documentation | Microsoft Learn f2ccy3wt(VS.80).aspx)

But anyway, you shouldn't need to do all that. http://blog.muse.net.nz/2008/09/07/setup-rails-on-windows-to-use-sqlite3/ suggests there's an easy way to get the prebuilt sqlite3 packages.

Fred

Frederick_Cheung · September 21, 2008, 5:25pm

Forgot to say - I do recommend you update to 1.2 - it's really a lot faster when installing/updating packages. You say you got errors with it but 1.1.1. doesn't seem to be giving you much love either.

Fred

Ricardo_Sazima · September 22, 2008, 1:36pm

John,

Building gems in Windows is a pain. There is no "make/nmake" command. You also have all these compiler issues described by Fred above. I always use pre-built...

Cheers, Sazima

11175 · September 22, 2008, 1:52pm

Sazima wrote:

John,

Building gems in Windows is a pain. There is no "make/nmake" command. You also have all these compiler issues described by Fred above. I always use pre-built...

Cheers, Sazima

On Sep 20, 11:14�pm, John Bailey <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net>

Which is great.. except the sqlite3-ruby gem has been updated to 1.2.4.. but not the mswin32 pre-built version! So now doing a 'gem update' will blow up with the above errors! I've asked about getting 1.2.4 mswin version, but no answer so far. I wouldn't mind staying at 1.2.3, but I can't do an update without it dying partway through on sqlite3-ruby.

If anyone knows of a way to have 'gem update' either skip a certain gem, or continue updating the rest after such an error, please let me know!

Thanks,

jt

11175 · October 1, 2008, 5:16pm

John T. wrote:

If anyone knows of a way to have 'gem update' either skip a certain gem, or continue updating the rest after such an error, please let me know!

hi, i have encountered a similar problem - using the gem update command and exiting in the middle of the update because i could not find some stupid stdio.h file (this specifically pertains to hpricot).

anyway, i found out that you can skip a certain gem by renaming the gem specification file for the specific gem that you want to skip.

in my case, i do not want to include hpricot in the gem update command so

i go to this directory: C:\Ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\specifications

and look for this file: hpricot-0.6-x86-mswin32.gemspec

then rename it to: hpricot-0.6-x86-mswin32.gemspec.bak

when i run gem update in my computer, it skips hpricot and on my WinXP XP2 machine, there is nothing left to update when i use the gem update command:

C:\Ruby>gem update Updating installed gems Nothing to update

and now, i can just manually update hpricot using this command:

gem install hpricot --source http://code.whytheluckystiff.net

and then rename this file again: hpricot-0.6-x86-mswin32.gemspec

i hope this helps your problem.