Hi,
I recently started working on an existing Ruby On Rails application which production environment is linux. However we are trying to create a dev. platform with Eclipse in Windows and everything was working fine until one of our classes was trying to import system_timer.
The initial error I got is:
no such file to load -- system_timer
Application Trace:
c:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require' c:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require' c:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:156:in `require' c:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:521:in `new_constants_in' c:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:156:in `require' C:/Documents and Settings/eshakor/workspace/InfoQuality/app/models/ldap_user.rb:2 C:/Documents and Settings/eshakor/workspace/InfoQuality/app/controllers/auth_controller.rb:44:in `authenticateAndAuthorize' C:/Documents and Settings/eshakor/workspace/InfoQuality/app/controllers/auth_controller.rb:18:in `login'
Ok so I figured I need to install system_timer so I opened a command prompt and typed:
gem install system_timer
And got error:
'nmake' is not recognized as an internal or external command operable program or batch file.
Hm, seems like I need some program called nmake. After some Googling it seemed like nmake was some kind of build utility. So I downloaded it and ran the install command again and got:
'cl' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
Right, so I need a C compiler. After ALOT of searching and trial and error with various windows C compilers I finally I managed to find and install Microsoft Visual C++ Express Edition and opened an SVC prompt (a command prompt with some env. settings) and tried the command for the third time. This time I got a long stack trace which I will only show a small excerpt here:
cl -nologo -I. -Ic:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-mswin32 -Ic:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1. 8/i386-mswin32 -I. -MD -Zi -O2b2xg- -G6 -c -Tcsystem_timer_native.c cl : Command line warning D9035 : option 'Og-' has been deprecated and will be r emoved in a future release cl : Command line warning D9002 : ignoring unknown option '-G6' system_timer_native.c system_timer_native.c(10) : error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'original_mas k' system_timer_native.c(10) : error C2059: syntax error : ';' system_timer_native.c(11) : error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'sigalarm_mas k' . . .
So it seems Visual Studios compiler is not compatible with whatever compiler is needed to build system_timer and this is where I am stuck. Where do I find a suitable C compiler for windows to build system_timer? Or is there some other way to install system_timer in windows?
Im using Ruby 1.8x and Rails 2.2x. Really appreciate some help as I have
spent over 10 hours trying to fix this seemingly easy issue and as I am
really a Java developer I am not used to these kind of problems 
