How can I add the iconv extension to Ruby?

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IIUC, the .so files are just the connection ruby needs to the actual
iconv.dll - you still need that.

You should download and compile iconv and readline from GNU.org.

HTH,
Assaph

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-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Elzen [mailto:martinelzen@hotmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, 2 May 2004 2:44 AM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: how can I add the iconv extension to Ruby?

Hi everyonel,

I want to be able to convert UTF-16 strings to UTF-8. From a usenet
post I
understand that the standard ‘iconv’ ext for Ruby can do that. That
same
post explained that you have to:

  1. install iconv (this step I thought I could skip since iconv came in
    the
    ruby-1.8.1.tar.gz)
  2. set configure_args=–with-iconv-dir=<where_you_installed_it>
  3. nmake

well, after doing so in the win32 directory for Ruby 1.8.1 I do see a
message fly by saying “compiling iconv”, but after it’s done a search
for
iconv does NOT show either an iconv.so or an iconv.dll, and also nmake
reports that ruby.exe and rubyw.exe have not been changed.

I also have a directory tree with ruby-1.9.0-20040402-i386-mswin32 which

does contain an iconv.so file, but the version of irb in that
directory
tree apparently doesn’t know where to look for the .so, just starting up
the
1.9.0.etc version of irb results in it showing a messagebox with the
text:
“This application has failed to start because readline.dll was not
found.
Re-installing the application may fix this problem.” . After clicking
on
the OK button irb does start running, but when I type require ‘iconv’ it

gives that same messagebox, except that it says it can’t find
’iconv.dll’
and after clicking the OK button again I get to see the following lines
in
irb:
LoadError: 126: The specified module could not be found. -
H:/ruby_190/lib/ruby/1.9/i386-mswin32/iconv.so
from H:/ruby_190/lib/ruby/1.9/i386-mswin32/iconv.so
from (irb):1
And what’s more, the iconv.so it says it can’t find is exactly in the
directory where irb says it can’t find it!

So, my questions are: am I missing something really simple in that first

procedure (the one for Ruby 1.8.1)? Or, alternatively, how can I get the

Ruby 1.9 install to recognise that the .so files it can’t find are
exactly
where it’s looking?

Martin

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