Ruby/LDAP on Windows

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Here is a message I sent to the maintainer of this particular project.
I was wondering if there were broader effects of this, as extconf.rb on
the Win32 platform using the ruby-mswin32 build seems to quirk out on
other projects as well. Does anyone fall into the same problems as me?

Below is the message I sent off:

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I am attempting to build the Ruby/LDAP v0.9.1 package on my Windows
2000 development box. I have installed Open-LDAP v2.2.26 on the local
C: drive. Using the extconf.rb script I specify this as 'ruby
extconf.rb --with-openldap2 --with-ldap-dir=c:/openldap-2.2.26' Below
are the contents of the mkmf.log:

have_header: checking for ldap.h... -------------------- no

"cl -IC:/ruby/ruby-ldap-0.9.1 -Ic:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-mswin32 -I.
-I./.. -I./../missing -MD -Zi -O2b2xg- -G6 -DUSE_OPENLDAP2
-DUSE_OPENLDAP -Ic:/openldap-2.2.26/include -D_REENTRANT conftest.c
-P" checked program was:
/* begin */
#include <ldap.h>
/* end */

--------------------

have_header: checking for lber.h... -------------------- no

"cl -IC:/ruby/ruby-ldap-0.9.1 -Ic:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-mswin32 -I.
-I./.. -I./../missing -MD -Zi -O2b2xg- -G6 -DUSE_OPENLDAP2
-DUSE_OPENLDAP -Ic:/openldap-2.2.26/include -D_REENTRANT conftest.c
-P" checked program was:
/* begin */
#include <lber.h>
/* end */

--------------------

have_header: checking for ldap_ssl.h... -------------------- no

"cl -IC:/ruby/ruby-ldap-0.9.1 -Ic:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-mswin32 -I.
-I./.. -I./../missing -MD -Zi -O2b2xg- -G6 -DUSE_OPENLDAP2
-DUSE_OPENLDAP -Ic:/openldap-2.2.26/include -D_REENTRANT conftest.c
-P" checked program was:
/* begin */
#include <ldap_ssl.h>
/* end */

--------------------

I have verified that the header files are located in the specified
OpenLDAP directory. I have tried any combination of specifying the
directory, such as --with-ldap-dir="c:\\openldap-2.2.26",
--with-ldap-dir=c:\openldap-2.2.26, etc. Any suggestions how I can get
the script to find the header files I have in place? I am looking to
deploy an application that will use LDAP on the back-end and would love
to get this done on my Windows 2000 box. I have FreeBSD here as well
and could move things over to there as a last resort, but my Win2K
laptop is more portable :slight_smile:

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gregarican wrote:

Here is a message I sent to the maintainer of this particular project.
I was wondering if there were broader effects of this, as extconf.rb on
the Win32 platform using the ruby-mswin32 build seems to quirk out on
other projects as well. Does anyone fall into the same problems as me?

Below is the message I sent off:

-----------------

I am attempting to build the Ruby/LDAP v0.9.1 package on my Windows
2000 development box. I have installed Open-LDAP v2.2.26 on the local
C: drive. Using the extconf.rb script I specify this as 'ruby
extconf.rb --with-openldap2 --with-ldap-dir=c:/openldap-2.­2.26' Below
are the contents of the mkmf.log:

have_header: checking for ldap.h... -------------------- no

"cl -IC:/ruby/ruby-ldap-0.9.1 -Ic:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-ms­win32 -I.
-I./.. -I./../missing -MD -Zi -O2b2xg- -G6 -DUSE_OPENLDAP2
-DUSE_OPENLDAP -Ic:/openldap-2.2.26/include -D_REENTRANT conftest.c
-P" checked program was:
/* begin */
#include <ldap.h>
/* end */

--------------------

have_header: checking for lber.h... -------------------- no

"cl -IC:/ruby/ruby-ldap-0.9.1 -Ic:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-ms­win32 -I.
-I./.. -I./../missing -MD -Zi -O2b2xg- -G6 -DUSE_OPENLDAP2
-DUSE_OPENLDAP -Ic:/openldap-2.2.26/include -D_REENTRANT conftest.c
-P" checked program was:
/* begin */
#include <lber.h>
/* end */

--------------------

have_header: checking for ldap_ssl.h... -------------------- no

"cl -IC:/ruby/ruby-ldap-0.9.1 -Ic:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-ms­win32 -I.
-I./.. -I./../missing -MD -Zi -O2b2xg- -G6 -DUSE_OPENLDAP2
-DUSE_OPENLDAP -Ic:/openldap-2.2.26/include -D_REENTRANT conftest.c
-P" checked program was:
/* begin */
#include <ldap_ssl.h>
/* end */

--------------------

I have verified that the header files are located in the specified
OpenLDAP directory. I have tried any combination of specifying the
directory, such as --with-ldap-dir="c:\\openldap-­2.2.26",
--with-ldap-dir=c:\openldap-2.­2.26, etc. Any suggestions how I can get
the script to find the header files I have in place? I am looking to
deploy an application that will use LDAP on the back-end and would love
to get this done on my Windows 2000 box. I have FreeBSD here as well
and could move things over to there as a last resort, but my Win2K
laptop is more portable :slight_smile:

I am still banging my head against the wall trying to get this compiled
on Windows 2000. I have tried compiling a Cygwin version, also to no
avail. Basically in either environment the extconf.rb routine fails to
find the header files using the have_header function that's part of
mkmf.rb. No matter if I specify --with-ldap-dir= or --with-ldapinc= or
--with-ldaplib= the extconf.rb routine doesn't find them. I tried
e-mailing the project maintainer a couple of times but didn't hear
anything back.

As an alternative to the OpenLDAP source files I have looked for the
Microsoft LDAP API source files. I can't seem to locate them. The only
thing I have found close is something called Microsoft ADAM (Active
Directory Application Mode), which is only intended for Windows XP and
2003. It won't install on my Windows 2000 box.

I sincerely hate to be a pest, but does anyone have a successfully
compiled ldap.so that resulted from installing Ruby/LDAP in the mswin32
environment? I used the Ruby One-Click Installer and didn't manually
install Ruby via Cygwin, MinGW, Borland, etc. Just wondering, because I
would love to start communication with my local LDAP server using Ruby
but am running into major roadblocks...

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Apologies for the shamefully late response. My wife recently gave birth
to our first child and I am in the midst of winding up my full-time job
and planning an international move.

It's bad news, I'm afraid. I inherited the maintainer position of
Ruby/LDAP from Takaaki Tateishi and, at that time, it appeared that
there was some support for compiling on Windows. Unfortunately, I don't
use Windows at all, so the support for that platform has remained
completely stagnant. I don't even know if it's still possible to build
Ruby/LDAP on that platform.

If anyone is willing to contribute patches for the Windows architecture,
I'd be happy to look at adding them in the future.

Ian

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On Sat 11 Jun 2005 at 00:55:29 +0900, gregarican wrote:

Here is a message I sent to the maintainer of this particular project.
I was wondering if there were broader effects of this, as extconf.rb on
the Win32 platform using the ruby-mswin32 build seems to quirk out on
other projects as well. Does anyone fall into the same problems as me?

--
Ian Macdonald | "Zaphod grinned two manic grins, sauntered
ian@caliban.org | over to the bar and bought most of it."
http://www.caliban.org/ | - Zaphod in paradise.
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gregarican wrote:

As an alternative to the OpenLDAP source files I have looked for the
Microsoft LDAP API source files. I can't seem to locate them.

winldap.h and winber.h are both in c:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003/Vc7/PlatformSDK/Include for me. The Windows LDAP
library has a few things extra to the UMich standard version,
including a WCHAR version, auto reconnect, SSP-based security, etc.

Sorry, but I haven't used it with Ruby.

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Ian Macdonald wrote:

Apologies for the shamefully late response. My wife recently gave birth
to our first child and I am in the midst of winding up my full-time job
and planning an international move.

No apologies necessary! Congratulations and it sounds as if you have
your hands full in many respects. As for the Ruby/LDAP project
compiling on Windows I would think that using a Cygwin setup one could
get this done. The problem is that my Ruby environment was created
using the one-click installer and is registered as mswin32. I do have
Cygwin on my system but Ruby wasn't compiled in it. Then to make
matters worse I have a couple of different IDE's on my system,
including Bloodshed Dev-C++ (which comes with a mingw compiler) and
Widestudio (which comes with a GNU compiler), in addition to my
Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 environment. I guess I could play
around with things until I get it done for Ruby/LDAP, but don't have to
time nor ingenuity I guess :slight_smile:

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Clifford Heather wrote:

winldap.h and winber.h are both in c:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual
Studio .NET 2003/Vc7/PlatformSDK/Include for me. The Windows LDAP
library has a few things extra to the UMich standard version,
including a WCHAR version, auto reconnect, SSP-based security, etc.

Looks like I am off to download the hundreds of megs of MS Platform SDK
bloat :slight_smile: and give that a shot. Hopefully that will be the silver
bullet I am looking for. Thanks for the suggestion!

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gregarican wrote:

Looks like I am off to download the hundreds of megs of MS Platform SDK
bloat :slight_smile: and give that a shot. Hopefully that will be the silver
bullet I am looking for. Thanks for the suggestion!

As the final nail in the coffin I downloaded the just the 32-bit x86
Build Environment portion of the PSDK to get my include and lib
directory contents. After doing so when I tried to nmake Ruby/LDAP I
received an error about there being a missing sys/time.h include file.
This file isn't part of the typical mswin32 compiler/linker
environment, as it is typically included in the mingw environment IIRC.
So at this point I think I will look into my FreeBSD box to start
playing around with Ruby/LDAP :frowning: Oh well, life goes on.