Problems installing FLTK on Windows

Hello all,

I tried to install RUBY-FLTK for my Windows-cygwin-Ruby, but couldn’t
get around all installation problems, mainly, but not only, caused by
"unix-like" directory/file specifications ( ., …). Could anybody
give me help, please?

Details:

FLTK: from URL: http://ruby-fltk.sourceforge.net/. Downloaded: ruby-
fltk-0.8.2.cygwin.utf8.zip, URL:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ruby-fltk/ruby-fltk-
0.8.2.cygwin.utf8.zip.

Ruby: ruby 1.6.5 (2001-09-19) [i386-cygwin].

Windows: Win95 OSR2.

Problems:

I did run install.rb, getting the errors of following types:

1.) because of the called “unix-like” dir/file specifications:

I:\Programs\Ruby\lib\ruby\site_ruby\ruby-fltk-0.8.2\install.rb:16:in
chdir': No such file or directory - "./lib" (Errno::ENOENT) from I:\Programs\Ruby\lib\ruby\site_ruby\ruby-fltk- 0.8.2\install.rb:16:infind’
from I:\Programs\Ruby\lib\ruby\site_ruby\ruby-fltk-
0.8.2\install.rb:35:in `install’
from I:\Programs\Ruby\lib\ruby\site_ruby\ruby-fltk-
0.8.2\install.rb:58

2.) with “require rubyfltk.so”:
I:\Programs\Ruby\lib\ruby\site_ruby\ruby-fltk-0.8.2\install.rb:3:in
`require’: dlopen: Win32 error 1157 -
…/I:\Programs\Ruby\lib\ruby\site_ruby\ruby-fltk-0.8.2\rubyfltk.so
(LoadError)
from I:\Programs\Ruby\lib\ruby\site_ruby\ruby-fltk-
0.8.2\install.rb:3

I tried to modify install.rb, but couldn’t fix all problems (I’m
ruby-newbie).

Any help is very appreciated.

Axel

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