Rubyinstaller devel - Jul 2008 - OpenSSL update & curses support

Hello,

I had been tinkering with a similar project 
(http://github.com/larsch/rakeruby4win/) until I found rubyinstaller. I 
will probably abandon it now, since rubyinstaller is more complete and 
clean, but there are couple of thing''s I''d like to see in
RubyInstaller.

The OpenSSL library that is used for the rubyinstaller is very old. I 
have added a rake recipe to build openssl from source 
(http://github.com/larsch/rubyinstaller/commits/opensslbuild). The 
biggest problem is that it depends on a Perl installation, and the MSYS 
perl doesn''t work. I have not been able to find a Perl package for 
windows that is easily downloadable & installable into the sandbox. 
Another small issue is that you need to clean up the PATH environment 
let it find mingw and nothing but mingw (the recipe does this). Other 
than that it appears to work.

I have added a recipe for pdcurses as well (on branch pdcurses).

A couple of minor issues I encountered:
  - rubygems installation doesnt work if RUBYOPT is set. I added a few 
lines to clear it on my master branch.
  - README.txt suggests that rubyinstaller will work with ruby 1.8.5 or 
later. I could not get it working using Ruby1.8.6-p0. There see to be 
some issues with Kernel#system when quoting the executable and directing 
to NUL at the same time. -p111 works fine however. Might be worthwhile 
checking the patch level and warning the user.
  - git and CR/LF is somewhat a mess. Any tips? If I checkout with 
core.autocrlf=true, it breaks the WiX XML files. If I edit files with 
core.autocrlf=false, it breaks the delta on everything else.

Regards,
Lars

On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Lars Christensen <larsch at belunktum.dk>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I had been tinkering with a similar project
> (http://github.com/larsch/rakeruby4win/) until I found rubyinstaller. I
will
> probably abandon it now, since rubyinstaller is more complete and clean,
but
> there are couple of thing''s I''d like to see in
RubyInstaller.
>
Hey Lars, welcome aboard!
> The OpenSSL library that is used for the rubyinstaller is very old. I have
> added a rake recipe to build openssl from source
> (http://github.com/larsch/rubyinstaller/commits/opensslbuild). The biggest
> problem is that it depends on a Perl installation, and the MSYS perl
doesn''t
> work. I have not been able to find a Perl package for windows that is
easily
> downloadable & installable into the sandbox. Another small issue is
that you
> need to clean up the PATH environment let it find mingw and nothing but
> mingw (the recipe does this). Other than that it appears to work.
>
Yeah, right now we depend on a old pre-build package since building
from sources, as you pointed, was problematic and required several
packages not included.

We consider that a task re factoring and reorganization will ease the
process, but right now we were focused in getting it done :-D

I checked you commit and saw you included mingw-make, is that just for
OpenSSL? We had several issues getting it working to build ruby
itself, so we reverted to msys-make instead.

An alternative, instead of following the batch file as suggested in
OpenSSL site is follow the configure, make and make install process.
Did you explored that way?
> I have added a recipe for pdcurses as well (on branch pdcurses).
>
Oh, great, the more extension being build, the better!
> A couple of minor issues I encountered:
>  - rubygems installation doesnt work if RUBYOPT is set. I added a few lines
> to clear it on my master branch.
Gordon did fix this in his fork which I didn''t pulled into mine:

http://github.com/vertiginous/rubyinstaller/tree/master
>  - README.txt suggests that rubyinstaller will work with ruby 1.8.5 or
> later. I could not get it working using Ruby1.8.6-p0. There see to be some
> issues with Kernel#system when quoting the executable and directing to NUL
> at the same time. -p111 works fine however. Might be worthwhile checking
the
> patch level and warning the user.
Yes, indeed:
ruby 1.8.5 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 114) [i386-mswin32]

and
ruby 1.8.6 (2008-03-03 patchlevel 114) [i386-mswin32]

Both worked for me, but didn''t used a older patchlevel since latest
1.8.5 of One-Click is 1.8.6 and previous was 1.8.5
>  - git and CR/LF is somewhat a mess. Any tips? If I checkout with
> core.autocrlf=true, it breaks the WiX XML files. If I edit files with
> core.autocrlf=false, it breaks the delta on everything else.
>
Yeah, two things I suggest: do not use git configure core.autocrlf
false directly, please alter the etc/gitconfig file instead, since I
have seen, even with --global being used, the change do not affect the
clones or the commits.

Also change your editor to Unix (LF) instead of Windows (LF+CR) since
most of the recipes are been coded that way (to be able to use the
sandbox as cross-platform compilation recipe). Most editor today
should be able to let you configure or change that. As rule of thumb,
I alwasy set on Unix to avoid merge conflicts contributing to
projects.
> Regards,
> Lars
>
Again, welcome aboard and thanks for your time man!

Good week and great work man. I''ll take a look to your commits and see
how can we workout those. You can use github gem to simplify pulling
from different users (use my fork of github-gem since will work with
MinGW).

Regards!
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On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 9:20 AM, Lars Christensen <larsch at belunktum.dk>
wrote:
> The OpenSSL library that is used for the rubyinstaller is very old. I have
> added a rake recipe to build openssl from source
> (http://github.com/larsch/rubyinstaller/commits/opensslbuild). The biggest
> problem is that it depends on a Perl installation, and the MSYS perl
doesn''t
> work. I have not been able to find a Perl package for windows that is
easily
> downloadable & installable into the sandbox. Another small issue is
that you
> need to clean up the PATH environment let it find mingw and nothing but
> mingw (the recipe does this). Other than that it appears to work.
This is good news.  I''ve tried building OpenSSL a few times, but never
had much luck with it.  As far as Perl goes, have you tried Strawberry
Perl[1]?  I don''t know much about the different Perl packages, but
Strawberry has a zip file available.  Just a thought.

[1] http://strawberryperl.com/releases.html

Thanks,

Gordon

Luis Lavena wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Lars Christensen <larsch at
belunktum.dk> wrote:
>   
> I checked you commit and saw you included mingw-make, is that just for
> OpenSSL? We had several issues getting it working to build ruby
> itself, so we reverted to msys-make instead.
>   
Yes, the OpenSSL build scripts call mingw32-make directly. Their 
makefile generator assume that everything is plain old DOS commands 
using mingw32-make (e.g. "copy" rather than "cp"). Tuning
the SHELL
might help, but since they assume DOS conventions for everything, it may 
not be compatible with msys-make.
> An alternative, instead of following the batch file as suggested in
> OpenSSL site is follow the configure, make and make install process.
> Did you explored that way?
>   
I tried that, but their scripts/Makefile refuse to work that way and ask 
you to use "ms\mingw32.bat" instead. They don''t use autoconf,
so
portability is something they handle manually.
> Yeah, two things I suggest: do not use git configure core.autocrlf
> false directly, please alter the etc/gitconfig file instead, since I
> have seen, even with --global being used, the change do not affect the
> clones or the commits.
>   
Setting it to false did help, I think. Not sure why I had the problem 
with edited files and "git diff"; I doesn''t happen
anymore.
> Also change your editor to Unix (LF) instead of Windows (LF+CR).
>   
No problem, I''m on Emacs.

On Sun, 6 Jul 2008, Gordon Thiesfeld wrote:
> I''ve tried building OpenSSL a few times, but never had much luck
with
> it. As far as Perl goes, have you tried Strawberry Perl[1]?  I
don''t
> know much about the different Perl packages, but Strawberry has a zip 
> file available.  Just a thought.
Good idea. However, they (ironically) include a MinGW environment of their 
own (zip is 35M). I''ve added rules to use it for building OpenSSL.

http://github.com/larsch/rubyinstaller/commit/77be67b3d8ebc370004bf314b5a99b6473846677

Regards,
Lars