[Mongrel] Mongrel doesn''t start under Rails 2.0.2/Win XP

Luis Lavena
Sat, 12 Jan 2008 19:12:16 -0000

On Jan 12, 2008 5:07 PM, Kevin Williams <kevwil at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Jan 12, 2008 10:48 AM, Wes Gamble <lists at ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> > This is kind of funny, because when rubygems 0.9.5 came out, it
appeared
> > that I was now _required_ to compile native gems on Windows and that
is
> > when I finally made sure that nmake would work to completion and
> > actually compile stuff.  It sounds like you''re saying that I
should have
> > waited for the pre-compiled gems to get fixed :).
>
> I had the same concern when 0.9.5 came out. I think what was missed
> was the fact that only compiling with VC++6 would be safe with the OCI
> installation. If you have VC++6 and nmake is compiling gems for you,
> you should be fine. Or, make sure you''re not compiling gems.
That''s my
> approach, at least.
>

0.9.5 was using the pure-ruby version of the gems, that doesn''t mean
it was right.
Neither ruby compilation troubles where fixed :-P

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