wxruby users - Aug 2003 - Problem Running Samples (Mingw, Ruby 1.8.0)

I believe I have followed Gour''s instructions to the letter for
compiling wxwindows, ruby and wxruby.

Indeed all of the compilation stages have worked flawlessly, however
when I try to ruby any of the samples I get an error dialog 

"This application has failed to start because wxmsw241d.dll was not
found ...."

Looking in the c:/mingw/lib directory 

robertm@PC126 /mingw/lib
$ ls -la *wx*

-rwxr-xr-x    3 robertm  Administ 39230756 Aug 28 12:06
libwx_mswd-2.4.dll
-rwxr-xr-x    3 robertm  Administ 39230756 Aug 28 12:06
libwx_mswd-2.4.dll.0
-rwxr-xr-x    3 robertm  Administ 39230756 Aug 28 12:06 wxmsw241d.dll
-rw-r--r--    1 robertm  Administ 10448410 Aug 28 12:06
wxmsw241d.dll.a

Anyone any thoughts?

TIA

Rob

Thanks Gerard that worked a treat. It was indeed the library path
problem, hopefully in the future there won''t be a need to edit the PATH
variable to point to the lib dir (as it isn''t needed when working with
FXRuby (I compiled fox, fxscintilla and fxruby just after doing
wxwindows and wxruby)).

Good work guys though :)

Now I wish I hadn''t compiled the non debug version, got a few seq
faults running the toolbar demo.

*sigh*

Rob
>>> "Gerard A.W. Vreeswijk" <gv@cs.uu.nl> 08/28/03
02:47pm >>>
At 12:50 28-8-2003 +0100, you wrote:
>I believe I have followed Gour''s instructions to the letter for
>compiling wxwindows, ruby and wxruby.
>
>Indeed all of the compilation stages have worked flawlessly, however
>when I try to ruby any of the samples I get an error dialog
>
>"This application has failed to start because wxmsw241d.dll was not
>found ...."
>
>Looking in the c:/mingw/lib directory
>
>robertm@PC126 /mingw/lib
>$ ls -la *wx*
>
>-rwxr-xr-x    3 robertm  Administ 39230756 Aug 28 12:06
>libwx_mswd-2.4.dll
>-rwxr-xr-x    3 robertm  Administ 39230756 Aug 28 12:06
>libwx_mswd-2.4.dll.0
>-rwxr-xr-x    3 robertm  Administ 39230756 Aug 28 12:06 wxmsw241d.dll
>-rw-r--r--    1 robertm  Administ 10448410 Aug 28 12:06
>wxmsw241d.dll.a
>
>Anyone any thoughts?
Hi Robert,

Yes, very simple,  I got the same problem following Gours instructions,

it''s a library path problem.  Put the path to the *.dll in your PATH 
variable.

When I ran xWindows with wxmsw241d.dll, I got too many errors while
running 
wxRuby.  I think it is better to compile the d-less version of 
wxmsw241d.dll, i.e., wxmsw241.dll

I am sure then everything runs fine.

Robert  McGovern (robertm@spellmanhv.co.uk) wrote:

Hi!
> Yes, very simple,  I got the same problem following Gours instructions,
> 
> it''s a library path problem.  Put the path to the *.dll in your
PATH
> variable.
I''m sorry for forgetting to incoude this piece of info in README file
:-(

On my system everything works since \MinGW\bin & \MinGW\lib are in PATH.

Sincerely,
Gour

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