X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:25:47 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: mysql.so: Permission denied (Ruby under Cygwin) Message-ID: <20070618132547.GA18250@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <387E9FC1619C0849BA8934938037E54F0884D2@sv-muc-004.venyon-mail.local> <46767F03.48C33276@dessent.net> <387E9FC1619C0849BA8934938037E54F0884D7@sv-muc-004.venyon-mail.local> <20070618130340.GO4179@calimero.vinschen.de> <387E9FC1619C0849BA8934938037E54F0884DA@sv-muc-004.venyon-mail.local> <46768651.82231835@dessent.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46768651.82231835@dessent.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Jun 18 06:19, Brian Dessent wrote: > Ronald Fischer wrote: > > > There is none. I was told by Ruby-Talk people that I should use the > > Windows > > gem - it would work fine. > > Ugh. Indeed, ugh. Who told you that, some random guy on ruby-talk or somebody who actually knows what (s)he's talking about? > You're mixing native win32 stuff with Cygwin stuff. You're trying to > load the module into a running copy of a Cygwin ruby but this module > imports symbols from the other copy of ruby in in C:\ruby185\. This > means it probably expects data structures of the native build, and most > likely will crash or act with very unpredictable behavior when used > elsewhere. In general this kind of cross-polination is never a good > idea. > > The *right* way to do it is to either stick to the win32 build (only) or > to build all the components that you want to use as Cygwin modules. Exactly. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/