RE: [FR-devel] FreeRIDE works under Windows

[Rich Kilmer]

It seams to stem from extension and threading.  Ruby threading works just dandy…I use it every day.  The FOX stuff seams to barf in the way it interacts with Ruby threads as a native extension.  I will research the last emails I got from Lyle regarding this and post them to this list.

 

-rich

 

-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Hal E. Fulton
Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 2:01 PM
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [FR-devel] FreeRIDE works under Windows

 

Nice to know that's ready. I'll check it out soon.

 

Curt, forgive my ignorance, but can you or someone

state the nature of the threading problem?

 

Did it happen with Cygwin, or is it related to the VC++

version? Is it only an interaction with Fox, or is it a

general thread problem?

 

I've written many little thread examples and exercised

every part of the API, and I didn't really see any bug

at that time (last year). Except for a little monitor bug

and a "queue" bug that was fixed.

 

Hal

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Curt Hibbs

To: Freeride-Devel

Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 4:35 AM

Subject: [FR-devel] FreeRIDE works under Windows

 

I just verified that the current version of FreeRIDE will, in fact, run under Andy's latest (beta) windows installer version of Ruby -- 1.6.7 which you can find at:

 

    http://rubygarden.com/ruby?WindowsInstaller

 

Of course, this is still with my hack for working around the Windows problem with threading (which Laurent changed to use only if FreeRIDE is running on Windows). This means that you can't currently run Laurent's Databus Inspector on Windows.

 

This means that my next task (as I said before) is to solve the threading problem.

 

Curt

 

PS

   Andy is also putting together a 1.7.2 release of the Ruby windows installer, and I will test against that when he makes it available.