I have been having problems installing wxRuby and having it work on
Ubuntu 9.10. To reproduce the problem I followed the following steps:
1 Backed up Ubuntu system
2 Installed Ubuntu 9.10
3 setup an internet connection
4 opened update manager
5 opened up a terminal:
6 sudo apt-get install ruby
7 sudo apt-get install rubygems
8 sudo apt-get install libwxgtk2.8-0
9 sudo apt-gets install libwxgtk2.8-dev
10 sudo gem install wxruby
11 ruby EyesApp.rb
from EyesApp.rb
begin
require ‘rubygems’
rescue LoadError
end
require ‘wx’
Note: EyesApp.rb was working before upgrading to Ubuntu karmic (9.10)
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/wxruby-2.0.1-x86-linux/lib/wxruby2.so:
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/wxruby-2.0.1-x86-linux/lib/wxruby2.so: symbol
_ZN13wxAuiNotebook14ShowWindowMenuEv, version WXU_2.8.5 not defined in
file
libwx_gtk2u_aui-2.8.so.0 with link time reference -
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/wxruby-2.0.1-x86-linux/lib/wxruby2.so (LoadError)
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in require' from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/wxruby-2.0.1-x86-linux/lib/wx.rb:12 from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:ingem_original_require’
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require’
from EyesApp.rb:5
wx-config --version
2.8.10
I’ve tried to compile wxRuby from scratch but no luck. What do I need
to
do?
Philip
Hi Philip,
2009/11/15 Philip S. [email protected]:
I have been having problems installing wxRuby and having it work on
Ubuntu 9.10. To reproduce the problem I followed the following steps:
6 sudo apt-get install ruby
7 sudo apt-get install rubygems
8 sudo apt-get install libwxgtk2.8-0
9 sudo apt-gets install libwxgtk2.8-dev
10 sudo gem install wxruby
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/wxruby-2.0.1-x86-linux/lib/wxruby2.so:
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/wxruby-2.0.1-x86-linux/lib/wxruby2.so: symbol
_ZN13wxAuiNotebook14ShowWindowMenuEv, version WXU_2.8.5 not defined in file
libwx_gtk2u_aui-2.8.so.0 with link time reference -
The wxruby Linux gem has been built with/for Ubuntu 9.04.
A different C++ compiler version is shipped with Ubuntu 9.10 (g++
4.4.1).
So the gem is not compatible with Ubuntu 9.10.
We may provide a Ubuntu-9.10 binary gem in the future but in the
meantime you have to build wxRuby yourself.
I’ve tried to compile wxRuby from scratch but no luck. What do I need to
do?
I’ve added detailed steps to do that in the Wiki :
http://wxruby.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?BuildingOnTopOfLinuxDistroPackages
Cheers.
Chauk-Mean.
Hey all, I’m having similar problems with getting wxRuby to work on
Karmic. I only need Wx for the MediaCtrl class, but I need it
nonetheless.
We may provide a Ubuntu-9.10 binary gem in the future but in the
meantime you have to build wxRuby yourself.
I’ve tried to compile wxRuby from scratch but no luck. What do I need to
do?
I’ve added detailed steps to do that in the Wiki :
http://wxruby.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?BuildingOnTopOfLinuxDistroPackages
This doesn’t seem like a good solution to me. If you are writing an
application, the last thing you want is for end-users to be forced
through manual compilation (which, incidentally, did not work for me). I
am eagerly anticipating a wxRuby binary gem for Ubuntu 9.10.
Hey Mario,
Thanks for your effort. I’ve finally managed to compile wxRuby myself,
and ended up with a ~3 MiB gem. Since your gem is a bit larger, have you
somehow made it work more consistently on different machines? I’m really
not good when it comes to binary stuff as I’ve always worked with
languages such as Java and Ruby.
Since there’s been many problems with Ubuntu Karmic Kola and getting
wxRuby
2.0.1 working, I’ve uploaded a Gem for wxRuby specifically for Ubuntu
9.10,
at http://www.trilake.net/wxRuby/wxruby-2.0.1-x86-linux.gem. I won’t
release this gem on RubyForge as it may mess up the current Gem for
Ubuntu
8.04, with the naming limitations. You can download it with wget, or
your
fav browser, and install it by going into the directory where you
downloaded
it from, and typing:
gem install --local wxruby-2.0.1-x86-linux.gem
This gem is not meant to be used with Ruby 1.9, 64Bit Processor, or any
other Version of Ubuntu, or Linux distrobution, that doesn’t use GCC 4.x
series of compilers. I garuntee nothing with this file, only the chance
to
be able to continue your work on Ubuntu 9.10, as I have tested, and been
able to make it work just fine.
hth,
Mario