Error when trying to install Buildr-as3 on Windows 7

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Question

I'm currently looking into automating a flex build so that we can get it running on a CI server.

After a bit of poking around on the Internet and asking around, Buildr as3 looks like a promising option, but I cannot get it to install correctly. Disclaimer: I am a ruby newbie (or a roob, if you will).

I've tried ruby 1.8.7, 1.9.2 and 1.9.3 with two PCs running the same OS. I get the same error in all cases. I'm using Windows 7 Enterprise 64 bit with SP1. Our development machines and the CI machine all run Windows.

I've been following these steps:

Install errors:

C:>gem install buildr-as3 Fetching: buildr-as3-0.2.19.gem (100%) Temporarily enhancing PATH to include DevKit... Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing buildr-as3: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

    C:/Ruby192/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb

* extconf.rb failed * Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of necessary libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more details. You may need configuration options.

Provided configuration options: --with-opt-dir --without-opt-dir --with-opt-include --without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include --with-opt-lib --without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib --with-make-prog --without-make-prog --srcdir=. --curdir --ruby=C:/Ruby192/bin/ruby extconf.rb:45:in open': No such file or directory - C:\Program Files (x86)\Java \jre6\include (Errno::ENOENT) from extconf.rb:45:in'

Gem files will remain installed in C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rjb-1.3.3 for inspection. Results logged to C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rjb-1.3.3/ext/gem_make.out

I would paste the contents of mkmf.log, but for some reason it's no longer being created on either of my PCs (looked in both devkit & ruby folders but no sign of it, probably user error).

Googling for the errors I had in the mkmf.log file turned up this pastie, though:

Gist of it:

conftest.c: In function 't': conftest.c:8:53: error: 'random' undeclared (first use in this function) conftest.c:8:53:

It looks like it's trying to build something from source but dependencies are missing, but I can't figure it out. Any ideas? Failing that, is anyone successfully running builder-as3 on Windows and, if so, which versions did you use?

Any help appreciated. Thanks.

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Solution 3

In the end, a colleague suggested I try the following (note the parameter is the same as the one used when installing buildr):

gem install buildr-as3 --platform mswin32

It then installed without errors.

OTHER TIPS

The problem is that the JAVA_HOME variable points to a JRE which doesn't have an "include" folder.

Change your environment variable to point to the JDK, which I'm sure you have otherwise it's rather difficult to do any Java development ;)

The problem does not come from buildr-as3, but from one its dependencies, rjb.

rjb doesn't find the folder C:\Program Files (x86)\Java \jre6\include because there is a space in it.

To fix the issue, either consider using jruby or use a java installation and define a JAVA_HOME that don't contain spaces.

Please contact the user mailing list of the buildr project if you need further help!

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