11.11.07

Merb on Windows: Need to have gcc installed. Forget it … I’m done.

Posted in Programming, Ruby, merb at 2:12 pm by Robert Horvick

[Update: Merb is now working on Windows] 

Previously I ran into this error when trying to get merb running on Windows:

C:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/RubyInline-3.6.5/lib/inline.rb:397:in ``': No such file or directory - cl -nologo -LD -Werror  -MD -Zi -O2b2xg- -G6 -I C:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-mswin32 -I C:/InstantRails/ruby/include -o "C:/Users/Robert/AppData/Local/Temp/.ruby_inline/Inline_ParseTree_fa12.so" "C:/Users/Robert/AppData/Local/Temp/.ruby_inline/Inline_ParseTree_fa12.c"  -link /LIBPATH:"C:/InstantRails/ruby/lib" /DEFAULTLIB:"msvcrt-ruby18.lib" /INCREMENTAL:no /EXPORT:Init_Inline_ParseTree_fa12 (Errno::ENOENT)
 from C:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/RubyInline-3.6.5/lib/inline.rb:397:in `build'
 from C:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/RubyInline-3.6.5/lib/inline.rb:679:in `inline'
 from C:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ParseTree-2.0.2/lib/parse_tree.rb:243
 from C:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require'
 from C:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `require'
 from C:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ruby2ruby-1.1.7/lib/ruby2ruby.rb:4
 from C:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:32:in `gem_original_require'
 from C:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:32:in `require'
  ... 13 levels...
 from C:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/merb-0.4.1/lib/merb/server.rb:500:in `run'
 from C:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/merb-0.4.1/bin/merb:6
 from C:/InstantRails/ruby/bin/merb:16:in `load'
 from C:/InstantRails/ruby/bin/merb:16

It turns out that merb depends on RubyInline which is the Ruby way to generate C code via Ruby.  Why does it require C code generation?  Honestly I’m not interested enough to continue digging.  I’m not installing gcc on this box.  A quick glance into inline.rb shows that this is a gcc-specific generator and I’m not inclined to spend a day writing the VC interface just to get another step further with merb.

Perhaps I’ll try merb out on my desktop sometime - I dual boot it to Ubuntu - but the point of having it on the laptop was so that I could veg out in bed after the kids were asleep and the wife and I are winding down (and I’m not putting Ubuntu on this machine - Vista is very stable and everything is working how I want it - I’m not going to tempt fate by changing partitions and adding grub).  I know I could remote in to the desktop via any number of protocols but this was just to see what I thought of merb.  I think at this point I’ve figure that out.

Merb looks interesting but has taken, so far, a very unix-centric development turn.  Rails is far more platform neutral and is therefore more compelling to me.

I’ll continue to keep an eye on merb, though.  It looks promising.

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