I found it. Sigh. Mongrel was trying to use fastthread 1.0.1 which apparently had been compiled with VC 8 (see below). I'm pretty sure that fastthread is not even necessary anymore - is that right? When I removed the fastthread gem, it starts up fine.
Also, check out my VC8 polluted PATH entries: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE; C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\BIN; C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\Tools; C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\bin; C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2\Bin; C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727; C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\VCPackages; (I got these because I installed the MSVC++ 2005 Express Edition at some point). So...just to be clear, should these entries be banished from my PATH immediately (unless of course I decide to start developing VC++ :])? Thanks for all of the help, guys. Wes -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users