Hi Will, Thanks for sharing your experience. I'm sure it will be useful to others.
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 7:48 AM, Will Rogers <wjrog...@gmail.com> wrote: > I just went through an unpleasant two hours trying to get buildr to install > on Windows. May I make two suggestions to improve your "Installing on > Windows" section at http://buildr.apache.org/installing.html ? > > 1. Installing the Ruby one-click installer is not enough, you also need the > devkit so you have a compiler and make. The devkit is a 7zip file available > on the same page as the one-click installer. You just extract it to your > Ruby directory and make sure the paths in devkit/msys/1.0.11/etc/fstab are > accurate. > Ok, added a mention of the devkit under the Windows section. (Website not yet updated) > 2. The version rjb-1.1.9 required by buildr-1.3.5 does not build when your > JAVA_HOME has spaces in the path. The default install location is in > "C:/Program Files", which means rjb will not build. rjb-1.2.0 works, so > please either release an updated buildr gem that works with this fixed > version of rjb or suggest a work-around of installing the JDK to a > non-default location with no spaces in the path. > Ok, we'll upgrade to rjb-1.2.0 for Buildr 1.4.0 so this shouldn't be an issue in the future. http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BUILDR-356 alex
