Serial Port Control with Ruby win32serial-0.5

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1

I have downloaded win32serial-0.5 and am trying to install in a Windows
XP machine. The readme file list the following steps:

···

------------------------------------------------
[How to install]
1. unzip win32serial-x.x.zip
2. ruby extconf.rb
3. make (or nmake)
4. make install
------------------------------------------------

From a WindowsCommand prompt:

Steps 1. and 2. are no problem.
Step 3 gives me an error:
'make' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

Please help. I could do what I need to do in Visual Basic, but am
trying to convert to Ruby and REALLY want to go with Ruby.

2

I installed Win32serial a few months ago and if I remember correctly,
nmake worked.
Give it a shot.

Harry

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On 1/21/07, jtb@hikearizona.com <prairietrees@gmail.com> wrote:

I have downloaded win32serial-0.5 and am trying to install in a Windows
XP machine. The readme file list the following steps:
------------------------------------------------
[How to install]
1. unzip win32serial-x.x.zip
2. ruby extconf.rb
3. make (or nmake)
4. make install
------------------------------------------------
>From a WindowsCommand prompt:
Steps 1. and 2. are no problem.
Step 3 gives me an error:
'make' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

Please help. I could do what I need to do in Visual Basic, but am
trying to convert to Ruby and REALLY want to go with Ruby.

--

3

I tried that with no luck. Wondering, should I be extracting to a
certain directory? I'm just extracting the files to my c:ruby
directory. The extraction tool actually puts them in
c:\ruby\win32serial. I run the extconf.rb file and get "creating
makefile" so that appears to work. But after that I'm in trouble
doing a make or nmake. Should there be more the the command 'make'
like ruby or a directory designation?

Harry wrote:

···

On 1/21/07, jtb@hikearizona.com <prairietrees@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have downloaded win32serial-0.5 and am trying to install in a Windows
> XP machine. The readme file list the following steps:
> ------------------------------------------------
> [How to install]
> 1. unzip win32serial-x.x.zip
> 2. ruby extconf.rb
> 3. make (or nmake)
> 4. make install
> ------------------------------------------------
> >From a WindowsCommand prompt:
> Steps 1. and 2. are no problem.
> Step 3 gives me an error:
> 'make' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
>
> Please help. I could do what I need to do in Visual Basic, but am
> trying to convert to Ruby and REALLY want to go with Ruby.
>
>
>

I installed Win32serial a few months ago and if I remember correctly,
nmake worked.
Give it a shot.

Harry
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4

You don't have nmake.
Get nmake on Microsoft Support
And follow the steps again.

There is another library for serial port:
http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-serialport/
That's work fine with me.

's

···

On 1/21/07, jtb@hikearizona.com <prairietrees@gmail.com> wrote:

I tried that with no luck. Wondering, should I be extracting to a
certain directory? I'm just extracting the files to my c:ruby
directory. The extraction tool actually puts them in
c:\ruby\win32serial. I run the extconf.rb file and get "creating
makefile" so that appears to work. But after that I'm in trouble
doing a make or nmake. Should there be more the the command 'make'
like ruby or a directory designation?

Harry wrote:
> On 1/21/07, jtb@hikearizona.com <prairietrees@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have downloaded win32serial-0.5 and am trying to install in a Windows
> > XP machine. The readme file list the following steps:
> > ------------------------------------------------
> > [How to install]
> > 1. unzip win32serial-x.x.zip
> > 2. ruby extconf.rb
> > 3. make (or nmake)
> > 4. make install
> > ------------------------------------------------
> > >From a WindowsCommand prompt:
> > Steps 1. and 2. are no problem.
> > Step 3 gives me an error:
> > 'make' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> > operable program or batch file.
> >
> > Please help. I could do what I need to do in Visual Basic, but am
> > trying to convert to Ruby and REALLY want to go with Ruby.
> >
>
> I installed Win32serial a few months ago and if I remember correctly,
> nmake worked.
> Give it a shot.
>
> Harry
> --
> http://www.kakueki.com/ruby/list.html

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5

Thanks for the help. I got nmake installed in the c:\ruby\bin
directory. I then went to the directory where the application was
downloaded to: c:\ruby\win32serial and ran nmake. It appeared to work.
I then did the following which I'll paste below. Notice at the end I
get an error and the code appears to stop.

C:\ruby\win32serial>nmake makefile

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 1.50
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-94. All rights reserved.

'makefile' is up-to-date

C:\ruby\win32serial>makefile
'makefile' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\ruby\win32serial>nmake install

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 1.50
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-94. All rights reserved.

        cl -nologo -I. -Ic:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-mswin32
-Ic:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-mswin32 -I. -
MD -Zi -O2b2xg- -G6 -c -Tcrb_serial_wrapper.c
'cl' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe' : return code
'0x1'
Stop.

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I"m using ruby 1.8.5. Is there should I be trying to install to a
particular directory/path??

Felipe Navas wrote:

You don't have nmake.
Get nmake on Microsoft Support
And follow the steps again.

There is another library for serial port:
http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-serialport/
That's work fine with me.

's

On 1/21/07, jtb@hikearizona.com <prairietrees@gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried that with no luck. Wondering, should I be extracting to a
> certain directory? I'm just extracting the files to my c:ruby
> directory. The extraction tool actually puts them in
> c:\ruby\win32serial. I run the extconf.rb file and get "creating
> makefile" so that appears to work. But after that I'm in trouble
> doing a make or nmake. Should there be more the the command 'make'
> like ruby or a directory designation?
>
>
> Harry wrote:
> > On 1/21/07, jtb@hikearizona.com <prairietrees@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I have downloaded win32serial-0.5 and am trying to install in a Windows
> > > XP machine. The readme file list the following steps:
> > > ------------------------------------------------
> > > [How to install]
> > > 1. unzip win32serial-x.x.zip
> > > 2. ruby extconf.rb
> > > 3. make (or nmake)
> > > 4. make install
> > > ------------------------------------------------
> > > >From a WindowsCommand prompt:
> > > Steps 1. and 2. are no problem.
> > > Step 3 gives me an error:
> > > 'make' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> > > operable program or batch file.
> > >
> > > Please help. I could do what I need to do in Visual Basic, but am
> > > trying to convert to Ruby and REALLY want to go with Ruby.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > I installed Win32serial a few months ago and if I remember correctly,
> > nmake worked.
> > Give it a shot.
> >
> > Harry
> > --
> > http://www.kakueki.com/ruby/list.html
>
>
>

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6

Would you be able to give me a brief description install procedure for
http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-serialport/
1. What path to install to
2. I see after extracting that the file is an Apache Loadable
Module....what is that? How do I handle this install?

John Bartels

Felipe Navas wrote:

···

You don't have nmake.
Get nmake on Microsoft Support
And follow the steps again.

There is another library for serial port:
http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-serialport/
That's work fine with me.

's

On 1/21/07, jtb@hikearizona.com <prairietrees@gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried that with no luck. Wondering, should I be extracting to a
> certain directory? I'm just extracting the files to my c:ruby
> directory. The extraction tool actually puts them in
> c:\ruby\win32serial. I run the extconf.rb file and get "creating
> makefile" so that appears to work. But after that I'm in trouble
> doing a make or nmake. Should there be more the the command 'make'
> like ruby or a directory designation?
>
>
> Harry wrote:
> > On 1/21/07, jtb@hikearizona.com <prairietrees@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I have downloaded win32serial-0.5 and am trying to install in a Windows
> > > XP machine. The readme file list the following steps:
> > > ------------------------------------------------
> > > [How to install]
> > > 1. unzip win32serial-x.x.zip
> > > 2. ruby extconf.rb
> > > 3. make (or nmake)
> > > 4. make install
> > > ------------------------------------------------
> > > >From a WindowsCommand prompt:
> > > Steps 1. and 2. are no problem.
> > > Step 3 gives me an error:
> > > 'make' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> > > operable program or batch file.
> > >
> > > Please help. I could do what I need to do in Visual Basic, but am
> > > trying to convert to Ruby and REALLY want to go with Ruby.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > I installed Win32serial a few months ago and if I remember correctly,
> > nmake worked.
> > Give it a shot.
> >
> > Harry
> > --
> > http://www.kakueki.com/ruby/list.html
>
>
>

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