hi Watir people, long time no email. I want to use Watir for a little project. I was installing it on a Vista desktop. Because it took 3 tries to get everything, Bret suggested I mention that here. Here is the full transcript of the installation, which happened to still be up in my shell:
C:\Users\ChrisMc>irb irb(main):001:0> exit C:\Users\ChrisMc>gem install watir Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org Install required dependency win32-process? [Yn] Y Install required dependency windows-pr? [Yn] Y Install required dependency windows-api? [Yn] Y Install required dependency win32-api? [Yn] Y Select which gem to install for your platform (i386-mswin32) 1. win32-api 1.4.5 (ruby) 2. win32-api 1.4.5 (x86-mswin32-60) 3. win32-api 1.4.4 (ruby) 4. win32-api 1.4.4 (x86-mswin32-60) 5. Skip this gem 6. Cancel installation > 2 Install required dependency win32-api? [Yn] Y Select which gem to install for your platform (i386-mswin32) 1. win32-api 1.4.5 (ruby) 2. win32-api 1.4.5 (x86-mswin32-60) 3. Skip this gem 4. Cancel installation > 1 Install required dependency test-unit? [Yn] Install required dependency hoe? [Yn] Y Install required dependency rubyforge? [Yn] Y Install required dependency json_pure? [Yn] Y Install required dependency rake? [Yn] Y Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError) ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. ruby extconf.rb install watir checking for strncpy_s()... no creating Makefile nmake 'nmake' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. Gem files will remain installed in c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/win32-api-1.4. 5 for inspection. Results logged to c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/win32-api-1.4.5/ext/gem_make.ou t C:\Users\ChrisMc>gem install watir Install required dependency win32-process? [Yn] Y Install required dependency windows-pr? [Yn] Y Install required dependency activesupport? [Yn] Y Install required dependency commonwatir? [Yn] Y Install required dependency user-choices? [Yn] Y Install required dependency xml-simple? [Yn] Y Install required dependency s4t-utils? [Yn] Y Install required dependency builder? [Yn] Y Install required dependency firewatir? [Yn] Y Successfully installed watir-1.6.2 Successfully installed win32-process-0.6.1 Successfully installed windows-pr-1.0.8 Successfully installed activesupport-2.3.4 Successfully installed commonwatir-1.6.2 Successfully installed user-choices-1.1.6 Successfully installed xml-simple-1.0.12 Successfully installed s4t-utils-1.0.4 Successfully installed builder-2.1.2 Successfully installed firewatir-1.6.2 Installing ri documentation for watir-1.6.2... Installing ri documentation for win32-process-0.6.1... Installing ri documentation for windows-pr-1.0.8... Installing ri documentation for activesupport-2.3.4... Installing ri documentation for commonwatir-1.6.2... Installing ri documentation for user-choices-1.1.6... Installing ri documentation for s4t-utils-1.0.4... Installing ri documentation for builder-2.1.2... While generating documentation for builder-2.1.2 ... MESSAGE: Unhandled special: Special: type=17, text="<!-- HI -->" ... RDOC args: --ri --op c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/doc/builder-2.1.2/ri --title Builder -- Easy XML Building --main README --line-numbers --quiet lib CHANGES Ra kefile README doc/releases/builder-1.2.4.rdoc doc/releases/builder-2.0.0.rdoc do c/releases/builder-2.1.1.rdoc (continuing with the rest of the installation) Installing ri documentation for firewatir-1.6.2... Installing RDoc documentation for watir-1.6.2... Installing RDoc documentation for win32-process-0.6.1... Installing RDoc documentation for windows-pr-1.0.8... Installing RDoc documentation for activesupport-2.3.4... Installing RDoc documentation for commonwatir-1.6.2... Installing RDoc documentation for user-choices-1.1.6... Installing RDoc documentation for s4t-utils-1.0.4... Installing RDoc documentation for builder-2.1.2... Installing RDoc documentation for firewatir-1.6.2... C:\Users\ChrisMc>gem install watir Successfully installed watir-1.6.2 Installing ri documentation for watir-1.6.2... Installing RDoc documentation for watir-1.6.2... C:\Users\ChrisMc>gem install watir Successfully installed watir-1.6.2 Installing ri documentation for watir-1.6.2... Installing RDoc documentation for watir-1.6.2... C:\Users\ChrisMc> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Watir General" group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
