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

Luis Lavena
Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:56:31 -0000

On Jan 11, 2008 6:00 AM, Wes Gamble <lists at ruby-forum.com>
wrote:
> Current resolution:
>
> Rolled back to Mongrel 1.1 and I can run it.
>

But again, you''re using RMagick 2.0?

It seems you''re missing the VC8 C runtimes, and later versions of
Mongrel fire the requirement.

Try this on irb:
require ''rubygems''
require ''mongrel''

And you will see there is no problem with that.

Anyway, script/server is something weird, if you try "mongrel_rails
start" you will see there is no problem.

Again, you have some extension that is linked with MSVCR80.dll, and
since is RMagick, that could bring a series of problems in relation to
malloc and free.

Don''t blame us we didnt'' warn you :-)

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