[Xapian-devel] Unable to install Xapian-Ruby binary

[Martin Margo]

Charlie,

After installing Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 redistributable from the following URL, Ruby module got loaded 
and seems to be working (writing database, stemming, etc). This problem is now solved.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=32BC1BEE-A3F9-4C13-9C99-220B62A191EE&displaylang=en

Did I miss reading about this requirement from ruby binding's 'install guide'? 

Another interesting thing: zlib1.dll seems to not matter if it's installed or not. I removed zlib1.dll from all 3 directories
I mentioned previously and 'xapian' module still loads.

Thanks much for your help.

-Martin





----- Original Message ----
From: Charlie Hull <charlie at juggler.net>
To: Xapian Development <xapian-devel at lists.xapian.org>
Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 2:54:51 AM
Subject: Re: [Xapian-devel] Unable to install Xapian-Ruby binary

Charlie Hull wrote:
> Martin Margo wrote:
>> Thanks for your help. I copied over zlib1.dll to 
>>
>> C:\gnu\zlib1.dll 
>> still the same error
>>
>> C:\Ruby\lib\ruby\1.8\i386-mswin32\zlib1.dll
>> still the same error
>>
>> C:\Ruby\lib\ruby\1.8\zlib1.dll
>> still the same error
>>
>> Was zlib1.dll compiled statically to the lib or dynamically? which path did it expect the dll to be in?
> 
> The same path as the other Xapian files. I'm going to try and reproduce 
> this error locally.

I've tried this now and it works here. I'm wondering if the problem is 
nothing to do with Xapian, there's a thread here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/watir-general@googlegroups.com/msg02513.html
that talks about problems with the win32api gem. Also, please try 
re-installing the Visual C++ 2005 redistributable as mentioned here:
http://db2onrails.com/2007/10/23/solving-loaderror-14001-driver-errors/

Could you try what these threads recommend and let us know the results?

Thanks

Charlie

>> BTW I didn't install the xapian-core package yet on this machine. Is it required?
> 
> No - it's all compiled into the bindings.
> 
> BTW, no need to reply to both me and the list, it just means I get 
> messages twice.
> 
> Charlie
> 
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Charlie Hull <charlie at juggler.net>
>> To: Xapian Development <xapian-devel at lists.xapian.org>
>> Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 6:10:17 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Xapian-devel] Unable to install Xapian-Ruby binary
>>
>> Martin Margo wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to install Ruby bindings for Xapian 1.3 on Windows. I got the binary from here
>>> http://www.flax.co.uk/xapian_windows.shtml
>>>
>>> On that page, I downloaded 
>>> xapian-1.0.13-bindings-ruby.zip MD5 sum: f212416679464b5f2c902a956ad58932 
>>>
>>> It is a zip file with 3 files/dirs
>>> docs/
>>> _xapian.so
>>> xapian.rb
>>>
>>> I copied _xapian.so to C:\ruby\lib\ruby\1.8\i386-mswin32\_xapian.so
>>> and xapian.rb to C:\Ruby\lib\ruby\1.8\i386-mswin32\..\xapian.rb
>>>
>>> My ruby version is 1.8.6 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 287) i386-mswin32
>>>
>>> Then I start irb and try to load Xapian module, only to find this error.
>>>
>>> C:\>irb
>>> irb(main):001:0> require 'xapian'
>>> LoadError: 14001: This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.
>>> - C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-mswin32/_xapian.so
>>>         from C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-mswin32/_xapian.so
>>>         from C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require'
>>>         from C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/xapian.rb:40
>>>         from C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require'
>>>         from C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require'
>>>         from (irb):1
>>> irb(main):002:0> quit
>>>
>>> C:\>
>>>
>>> Do you have any ideas how to fix it?
>> Hi Martin,
>>
>> I wonder if you might need zlib1.dll ? Try downloading it from here
>> http://www.zlib.net/
>> and installing it in the same folder. I'm afraid I'm not a Ruby expert, 
>> but I do know the Xapian smoketest passed for Ruby...let us know how you 
>> get on.
>>
>> Charlie
>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
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