Problems compiling IronRuby on Mac Leopard

ben · May 6, 2008, 11:32am

Hi
I try to write a little blog article about installing mono and
ironruby on Mac Leopard from the ground up. It’s a bit a bumpy road
(especially to get mono build from sources), but I’m almost there.

I’m following these instructions
http://sparcs.kaist.ac.kr/~tinuviel/download/IronRuby/HOWTO

and work with the latest patch:
$ patch -p0 < patch-mono-r94

from here:
http://sparcs.kaist.ac.kr/~tinuviel/download/IronRuby/patch-mono-r94

but it doesn’t work:
$ rake compile mono=1

rake aborted!
cannot resolve path System.dll
~/mono/compiling/ironruby/rakefile:137
(See full trace by running task with --trace)

(* with --trace see below)

What’s needed that the System.dll can be resolved?

Thanks for your help.
Ben

(*)
$ sudo rake compile mono=1 --trace
(~/mono/compiling/ironruby)
** Invoke compile (first_time)
** Invoke happy (first_time)
** Execute happy
** Invoke clean_build (first_time)
** Invoke happy
** Execute clean_build
** Invoke compile_dlr (first_time)
** Invoke clean_build
** Execute compile_dlr
rake aborted!
cannot resolve path System.dll
./context.rb:90:in resolve_framework_path' ./context.rb:89:in each’
./context.rb:89:in resolve_framework_path' ./context.rb:130:in resolve_framework_path’
./context.rb:405:in resolve_framework_path' ./context.rb:420:in references’
./context.rb:418:in each' ./context.rb:418:in references’
./context.rb:434:in compile' ./context.rb:432:in chdir’
./context.rb:432:in compile' /mono/compiling/ironruby/rakefile:137 ./context.rb:578:in instance_eval’
./context.rb:578:in source_context' /mono/compiling/ironruby/rakefile:135 /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:546:in call’
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:546:in
execute' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:541:in each’
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:541:in
execute' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:508:in invoke_with_call_chain’
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:501:in
synchronize' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:501:in invoke_with_call_chain’
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:518:in
invoke_prerequisites' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:1183:in each’
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:1183:in send' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:1183:in each’
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:515:in
invoke_prerequisites' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:507:in invoke_with_call_chain’
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:501:in
synchronize' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:501:in invoke_with_call_chain’
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:494:in invoke' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:1931:in invoke_task’
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:1909:in
top_level' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:1909:in each’
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:1909:in
top_level' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:1948:in standard_exception_handling’
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:1903:in
top_level' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:1881:in run’
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:1948:in
standard_exception_handling' /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:1878:in run’
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/bin/rake:31
/opt/local/bin/rake:16:in `load’
/opt/local/bin/rake:16

ben · May 6, 2008, 12:16pm

2008/5/6 Ben A. [email protected]:

What’s needed that the System.dll can be resolved?

You need to have pkg-config correctly configured.

$ pkg-config --variable=libdir mono
/usr/lib

If you don’t get any output, try setting PKG_CONFIG_PATH so that
pkg-config can find mono.pc.

ben · May 6, 2008, 12:42pm

that’s my line in ~/.bash_profile:
…
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/opt/mono/lib/pkgconfig/"
,…

and this is what I get with
$ pkg-config --variable=libdir mono

/opt/mono/lib/pkgconfig/…/…/lib

should this be correct - no? What’s wrong here?

ben · May 6, 2008, 12:54pm

I forgot to mention:

after restarting the shell, I tried it once again:

$ rake compile mono=1
(in /mono/compiling/ironruby)
Read in 33 resources from
‘…/ironruby/src/microsoft.scripting.core/Microsoft.Scripting.txt’
Writing resource file… Done.

–and than this error (?):
./actions/comdispatch/DispCallable.cs(134,9): error CS0452: The type
T' must be a reference type in order to use it as type parameterT’
in the generic type or method
Microsoft.Scripting.Actions.RuleBuilder<T>'. ./actions/comdispatch/comtypelibdesc.cs(141,9): error CS0452: The typeT’ must be a reference type in order to use it as type parameter T' in the generic type or methodMicrosoft.Scripting.Actions.RuleBuilder’.

–
Compilation failed: 2 error(s), 0 warnings
rake aborted!
Command failed with status (1): [gmcs
/out:"/users/shared/xfiles/root/nowit…]
/mono/compiling/ironruby/rakefile:137

When I now try to run it again I simply get:

$ sudo rake compile mono=1
rake aborted!
cannot resolve path System.dll

ben · May 6, 2008, 1:29pm

2008/5/6 Ben A. [email protected]:

–and than this error (?):
./actions/comdispatch/DispCallable.cs(134,9): error CS0452: The type
T' must be a reference type in order to use it as type parameter T’
in the generic type or method
Microsoft.Scripting.Actions.RuleBuilder<T>'. ./actions/comdispatch/comtypelibdesc.cs(141,9): error CS0452: The type T’ must be a reference type in order to use it as type parameter T' in the generic type or method Microsoft.Scripting.Actions.RuleBuilder'.

This is a recent unrelated error. This problem is reported as Mono bug
#387040.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=387040

The last working revision is r98. If all you want is to try IronRuby,
you could update to old revisions.

When I now try to run it again I simply get:

$ sudo rake compile mono=1
rake aborted!
cannot resolve path System.dll

Of course, you are using sudo, which resets the shell environment.
Therefore, don’t.

ben · May 6, 2008, 2:25pm

ok, I’m a little confused now. What excactly do I have to do now in
order to compile it?
I’m stuck with compiling ironruby.

$ rake compile mono=1
rake aborted!
cannot resolve path System.dll

What to do??

ben · May 6, 2008, 1:53pm

oh I have a script that should do all that.
i can email it to you if you want.
I also have that blogpost up that explains everything

ben · May 6, 2008, 2:27pm

Ivan, your article was one of the references for my attempt to install
ironruby on leopard. It would be very nice if you could send me your
script to [email protected]
thanks

ben · May 6, 2008, 2:49pm

Seo,

As I’ve writte in my 2nd response PKG_CONFIG_PATH is set. The question
is: Is it set correctly and what is the criteria for the correct
setting?

ben · May 6, 2008, 2:32pm

2008/5/6 Ben A. [email protected]:

ok, I’m a little confused now. What excactly do I have to do now in
order to compile it?

I believe I already answered all your questions. If you have some
more, please state it.

Cannot resolve path System.dll
Configure pkg-config correctly. Make sure PKG_CONFIG_PATH is set. Make
sure you don’t use sudo, which reset the shell environment.
Bizarre CS0452 error from Mono C# compiler
Mono bug #387040. No solution yet. Downgrade to SVN r98.

ben · May 6, 2008, 3:01pm

ok I have the reason why it didn’t worked.

on the post of Ivan
(Compiling Mono and IronRuby on OSX Leopard - Ivan Porto Carrero)

I copied the line:

export
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=“/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/local/lib/pkgconfig”

now the path (/usr/local/…) has other exclamation marks than there
are on my mac.

" (blog)
" (my mac)

I don’t know if you can see the difference. But fact is that it
doesn’t work with the “blog marks”.

Does somebody has an explanation for this?

thanks
Ben

ben · May 6, 2008, 3:16pm

thanks,
does that mean, that my terminal don’t know the character set used on
the website?

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Thibaut Barrère

ben · May 6, 2008, 3:12pm

Does somebody has an explanation for this?

The double quote is transformed into mister ”, a nicer yet
incompatible-with-your-command-line version of itself.

cheers

Thibaut

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ben · May 6, 2008, 3:24pm

if I understand Seo correctly, I have to downgrade in order to
compile ironruby for mac. There is no other option.

Could somebody tell me the (best) way for downgrading the sources. Can
I downgrade with SVN the existing sources? If yes - how?
Or is it better to remove the checked out sources and make a checkout
again with the specific revision number? Again - how?

thanks for your help

Benh

ben · May 6, 2008, 3:25pm

does that mean, that my terminal don’t know the character set used on the
website?

If you use the html version on the OS X command line, the variable will
keep
the quotes inside the value instead of acting like a string delimiter:

Macintosh:temp thbar$ export
SOMEVAR="/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/local/lib/pkgconfig"
Macintosh:temp thbar$ echo $SOMEVAR
“/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/local/lib/pkgconfig”

On the other hand, if you use the regular double-quote, you’ll get the
expected behaviour:

Macintosh:temp thbar$ export
SOMEVAR="/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/local/lib/pkgconfig"
Macintosh:temp thbar$ echo $SOMEVAR
*/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/local/lib/pkgconfig
*

hope this helps

– Thibaut

ben · May 6, 2008, 3:29pm

2008/5/6 Ben A. [email protected]:

Could somebody tell me the (best) way for downgrading the sources. Can
I downgrade with SVN the existing sources? If yes - how?

Yes. svn update -r 98.

ben · May 6, 2008, 4:30pm

thanks,

I always got the error:

svn: Failed to add file ‘web/makefile’: object of the same name already
exists

I removed web/Makefile, and than it worked …