qt ruby gem install on windows xp

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I was looking forward to trying Ruby with qt - it seems a great
combination.

I installed Ruby on a windows XP machine using the ruby one click
installer (1.8.6-26). I then downloaded the qtruby4-1.4.9-mswin32.gem
and tried to install with the command:

gem install qtruby4-1.4.9-mswin32.gem


Immediately I then get a buffer error. I have read somewhere that
this could be due to zlib but I do not know how to get around the
problem. Any ideas would be appreciated.


Thanks,

Mark Ryan

 

[Phillip Gawlowski]

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(e-mail address removed) wrote:
| I was looking forward to trying Ruby with qt - it seems a great
| combination.
|
| I installed Ruby on a windows XP machine using the ruby one click
| installer (1.8.6-26). I then downloaded the qtruby4-1.4.9-mswin32.gem
| and tried to install with the command:
|
| gem install qtruby4-1.4.9-mswin32.gem
|
|
| Immediately I then get a buffer error. I have read somewhere that
| this could be due to zlib but I do not know how to get around the
| problem. Any ideas would be appreciated.

What is the error you get, exactly?

And you can replace the zlib library with another build. It's homepage
should be a starting point:

http://www.zlib.net/

Alternatively, you could extract the gem with 7Zip, WinRAR or any other
packaging program that understand tar and gzip. You'll have to install
it somewhat manually, though (dropping it into a directory in
path_to_ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems that is named similar to the other
gems there).

Alternatively: Can you gem install the Qt gem remotely?

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