RUDL install problems on win32

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Hi Ramesh,

If you have a look here http://froukepc.dhs.org/rudl/download/binary/ you
should be able to find the correct RUDL.so for your installation,

regards,

Martin

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-----Original Message-----
From: Ramesh Ramloll [mailto:ramloll2001@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, 28 November 2002 3:17 PM
To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Cc: danny@laamella.com
Subject: Re: RUDL install problems on win32

Hi Bill,
Thanks for the dependency walker tool tip. I managed
to find out what the problem is.
The version of RUDL.so I have depends on
mswin32-ruby17.dll. In my installation of ruby which
is the ‘one click installation stuff from the
Pragmaticprogramming.com site’ I have
msvcrt-ruby17.dll
Has anyone got the proper dll which I could just try
to put in the ruby\bin folder? I found an
mswin32-ruby16.dll from somewhere but predictably got
a segmentation fault while trying to run the sample
examples.
Thanks again Bill, this tool is a great find.
R

— Bill Kelly billk@cts.com wrote:

Hi Ramesh,

From: “Ramesh Ramloll” ramloll2001@yahoo.com

Hi Bill,
Checked the windows excutables search path, its
pointing to the right place. All the dlls are in
c:\ruby\bin and the latter of course is on my
PATH.
Well was just trying some interesting minimal
multi-media application to learn Ruby.

Sorry to hear RUDL isn’t working for you, but glad
GLUT and
OpenGL are. Perhaps the win32 Dependency Walker
( http://www.dependencywalker.com/ ) would be of
some utility
in troublshooting RUDL’s Missing Link…

Also, I’ve noticed on RAA an alternate SDL binding
for Ruby,
but haven’t tried it yet myself:
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/raa-list.rhtml?id=415

Additionally, in case it might be relevant to what
you want
to do with Ruby, here’s one way (albeit
windows-specific) to
play sounds:
http://www.ruby-talk.com/55423

I think there has always been a lot of
un-necessary cognitive load on setting things up
before you get started. I remember this was true
with
the Java CLASSPATH in the begining.

Yes, it’s regrettable the RUDL library doesn’t
specify which
DLL it’s unable to link with. . . . I haven’t
experienced
many dependency-related problems in Ruby yet, so far
most
things I’ve added have just Worked for me, but maybe
I’ve
been lucky so far. I’ve certainly had my share of
NoClassDefFound exceptions in Java. :slight_smile:

Anyway, at least OpenGL and
GLUT seems to work for me so may I drop RUDL for
now.

Good luck & Have fun with Ruby !

Regards,

Bill

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Assistive Technology & Neuroscience Research CenterNational Rehabilitation
Hospital
102 Irving St., NW
Washington, DC 20010
202-877-1932 phone ext 1935
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