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  1. POfailed to build native extension for bcrypt-ruby gem under cygwin on windows xp
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    copied!<p>I am setting up a testing agent on Windows XP for a Rails App.</p> <p>To enforce consistency between Agents, I am installing it through Bundler with RVM with Cygwin.</p> <p>The following is the result of running bundle install in the project directory(EDIT: Note that running gem install bcrypt-ruby produces identical output):</p> <pre><code>Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. /goBaltoEngineering/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p125/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb creating Makefile make compiling bcrypt_ext.c compiling crypt.c compiling crypt_blowfish.c compiling crypt_gensalt.c compiling wrapper.c In file included from wrapper.c:27:0: /goBaltoEngineering/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p125/include/ruby-1.9.1/ruby/backward/util.h:2:2: warning: #warning use "ruby/util.h" instead of bare "util.h" linking shared-object bcrypt_ext.so bcrypt_ext.o:bcrypt_ext.c:(.text+0x29): undefined reference to `_ruby_bcrypt' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status Makefile:207: recipe for target `bcrypt_ext.so' failed make: *** [bcrypt_ext.so] Error 1 Gem files will remain installed in /goBaltoEngineering/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p125@togo/gems/bcrypt-ruby-3.0.1 for inspection. Results logged to /goBaltoEngineering/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p125@togo/gems/bcrypt-ruby-3.0.1/ext/mri/gem_make.out An error occurred while installing bcrypt-ruby (3.0.1), and Bundler cannot continue. Make sure that `gem install bcrypt-ruby -v '3.0.1'` succeeds before bundling. </code></pre> <p>the cygwin gcc package is installed:</p> <pre><code>$ whereis gcc gcc: /bin/gcc.exe /usr/bin/gcc.exe /lib/gcc /usr/lib/gcc /cygdrive/e/Cygwin/bin/gcc.exe /usr/share/man/man1/gcc.1.gz $ gcc -v Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=gcc COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.5.3/lto-wrapper.exe Target: i686-pc-cygwin Configured with: /gnu/gcc/releases/respins/4.5.3-3/gcc4-4.5.3-3/src/gcc-4.5.3/configure --srcdir=/gnu/gcc/releases/respins/4.5.3-3/gcc4-4.5.3-3/src/gcc-4.5.3 --prefix=/usr --exec- prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --libexecdir=/usr/lib -- datadir=/usr/share --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc --datarootdir=/usr/share -- docdir=/usr/share/doc/gcc4 -C --datadir=/usr/share --infodir=/usr/share/info -- mandir=/usr/share/man -v --with-gmp=/usr --with-mpfr=/usr --enable-bootstrap --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --libexecdir=/usr/lib --enable-static --enable-shared --enable-shared-libgcc --disable-__cxa_atexit --with-gnu-ld --with-gnu-as --with-dwarf2 --disable-sjlj-exceptions --enable-languages=ada,c,c++,fortran,java,lto,objc,obj-c++ --enable-graphite --enable-lto --enable-java-awt=gtk --disable-symvers --enable-libjava --program-suffix=-4 --enable-libgomp --enable-libssp --enable-libada --enable-threads=posix --with-arch=i686 --with-tune=generic --enable-libgcj-sublibs CC=gcc-4 CXX=g++-4 CC_FOR_TARGET=gcc-4 CXX_FOR_TARGET=g++-4 GNATMAKE_FOR_TARGET=gnatmake GNATBIND_FOR_TARGET=gnatbind --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/ecj.jar Thread model: posix gcc version 4.5.3 (GCC) </code></pre> <p>as is bcrypt:</p> <pre><code> $ whereis bcrypt bcrypt: /bin/bcrypt.exe /usr/bin/bcrypt.exe /cygdrive/e/Cygwin/bin/bcrypt.exe /usr/share/man/man1/bcrypt.1.gz bcrypt -v bcrypt: unknown option -- v Usage is: /bin/bcrypt -[orc][-sN] file1 file2.. -o Write output to standard out -r Do NOT remove input files after processing -c Do NOT compress files before encryption -sN How many times to overwrite input files with random data </code></pre> <p>Results of further research:</p> <p>Setting </p> <pre><code> rvm use system </code></pre> <p>(in my case 1.9.3-p286) allows bcrypt-ruby to install without incident</p> <p>Installing 1.9.3-p286 through rvm and setting</p> <pre><code> rvm use 1.9.3-p286 </code></pre> <p>Results in an identical (bar the ruby version) error message. </p> <p>Installing on Mac OS X works without a hitch on numerous developer stations and several Mac Agents.</p> <p>All of this suggests that the error is at the intersection of rvm with cygwin.</p> <p>I have tried everything I could come up with. Any help would be greatly appreciated.</p> <p>Thank you</p>
 

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