Wxruby2.so: [BUG] Segmentation fault on require 'wx'

Hi –

I am trying to get ruby 1.9 to run on my Windows Vista Ultimate computer
with and Intel 32 bit processor and all OS updates applied.
I installed ruby 1.9 on October 23, 2009 using the zip file
(ruby-1.9.1-p129-i386-mswin32.zip) and the instructions located at:
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I was able to run several simple scripts. So far so good.
I then went after wxruby and got it installed following the
instructions at
http://wxruby.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/wxruby/INSTALL

I tried to execute minimal.rb.
Running it in any fashion from the command line e.g.
ruby minimal.rb
ruby -rubygems minimal.rb
generated the error output you see below.
I eliminated all the code and can produce the crash and the same output
just by requiring ‘rubygems’ and ‘wx’. I called that file mini.rb and it
is below. It will fail if the only two lines are:

require ‘rubygems’
require ‘wx’

I searched around on the forums for a solution and have found none so I
am posting and asking for help. In searching I’ve seen requests for the
output of
gem env and ruby -v so they are below too.

gem update system returns Nothing to update.

Thanks to anyone who can help and everyone who tries.

Doug

this is mini.rb

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby

wxRuby2 Sample Code. Copyright (c) 2004-2008 wxRuby development team

Freely reusable code: see SAMPLES-LICENSE.TXT for details

begin
require ‘rubygems’
rescue LoadError
end
require ‘wx’

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C:\Program
Files\Applications\Ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.9.1\gems\wxruby-2.0.1-x86-mswin32-60\samples\minimal>ruby
-rubygems mini.rb
C:/Program
Files/Applications/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/wxruby-2.0.1-x86-mswin32-60/lib/wxruby2.so:
[BUG] Segmentation fault
ruby 1.9.1p129 (2009-05-12 revision 23412) [i386-mswin32]

– control frame ----------
c:0008 p:-9088168 s:0021 b:0021 l:000020 d:000020 TOP
c:0007 p:---- s:0019 b:0019 l:000018 d:000018 CFUNC :require
c:0006 p:0011 s:0015 b:0015 l:000014 d:000014 TOP C:/Program
Files/Applications/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/wxruby-2.0.1-x86-mswin32-60/lib/wx.rb:12
c:0005 p:---- s:0012 b:0012 l:000011 d:000011 FINISH
c:0004 p:---- s:0010 b:0010 l:000009 d:000009 CFUNC :require
c:0003 p:0038 s:0006 b:0006 l:0001ac d:002364 EVAL mini.rb:9
c:0002 p:---- s:0004 b:0004 l:000003 d:000003 FINISH
c:0001 p:0000 s:0002 b:0002 l:0001ac d:0001ac TOP

– Ruby level backtrace
information-----------------------------------------
C:/Program
Files/Applications/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/wxruby-2.0.1-x86-mswin32-60/lib/wx.rb:12:in
require' C:/Program Files/Applications/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/wxruby-2.0.1-x86-mswin32-60/lib/wx.rb:12:in <top (required)>’
mini.rb:9:in require' mini.rb:9:in

[NOTE]
You may encounter a bug of Ruby interpreter. Bug reports are welcome.
For details: http://www.ruby-lang.org/bugreport.html

This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual
way.
Please contact the application’s support team for more information.

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C:>ruby -v
ruby 1.9.1p129 (2009-05-12 revision 23412) [i386-mswin32]

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C:>gem env
RubyGems Environment:

  • RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.3.5
  • RUBY VERSION: 1.9.1 (2009-05-12 patchlevel 129) [i386-mswin32]
  • INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: C:/Program
    Files/Applications/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1
  • RUBYGEMS PREFIX: C:/Program
    Files/Applications/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rubygems-update-1.3.5
  • RUBY EXECUTABLE: “C:/Program Files/Applications/Ruby/bin/ruby.exe”
  • EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: C:/Program Files/Applications/Ruby/bin
  • RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
    • ruby
    • x86-mswin32-60
  • GEM PATHS:
    • C:/Program Files/Applications/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1
    • C:/Users/Doug/.gem/ruby/1.9.1
  • GEM CONFIGURATION:
    • :update_sources => true
    • :verbose => true
    • :benchmark => false
    • :backtrace => false
    • :bulk_threshold => 1000
  • REMOTE SOURCES:

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Alex F. wrote:

hi doug

Doug Sands wrote:

I am trying to get ruby 1.9 to run on my Windows Vista Ultimate computer
with and Intel 32 bit processor and all OS updates applied.
I installed ruby 1.9 on October 23, 2009 using the zip file
(ruby-1.9.1-p129-i386-mswin32.zip)

C:/Program
Files/Applications/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/wxruby-2.0.1-x86-mswin32-60/lib/wxruby2.so:
[BUG] Segmentation fault
ruby 1.9.1p129 (2009-05-12 revision 23412) [i386-mswin32]

it looks like you may be using the wxruby gem built for Ruby version
1.8 - these are not compatible with Ruby 1.9. We don’t currently have a
wxruby gem for Ruby 1.9 built with the microsoft compiler, but you can
use wxRuby and ruby 1.9 built with the mingw compiler. If you got to the
download page:

http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=35

you’ll see a mingw-…-setup.exe package. This is an all-in-one
development environment for Windows and Ruby 1.9, with wxruby already
installed. This should have you up and running quickly for GUI dev on MS
windows.

The one-click installer for ruby has moved to using MingW, so it’s our
best guess as wxRuby developers that this is future platform for ruby on
windows.

alex

Hello Alex –
Worked like a charm. I feel kind of foolish for not having found the
information suggesting I to do this is on my own given how much
searching I did. Nevertheless, I didn’t, you helped, and I’m up and
running.
Thank you very much.
Doug

hi doug

Doug Sands wrote:

I am trying to get ruby 1.9 to run on my Windows Vista Ultimate computer
with and Intel 32 bit processor and all OS updates applied.
I installed ruby 1.9 on October 23, 2009 using the zip file
(ruby-1.9.1-p129-i386-mswin32.zip)

C:/Program
Files/Applications/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/wxruby-2.0.1-x86-mswin32-60/lib/wxruby2.so:
[BUG] Segmentation fault
ruby 1.9.1p129 (2009-05-12 revision 23412) [i386-mswin32]

it looks like you may be using the wxruby gem built for Ruby version
1.8 - these are not compatible with Ruby 1.9. We don’t currently have a
wxruby gem for Ruby 1.9 built with the microsoft compiler, but you can
use wxRuby and ruby 1.9 built with the mingw compiler. If you got to the
download page:

http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=35

you’ll see a mingw-…-setup.exe package. This is an all-in-one
development environment for Windows and Ruby 1.9, with wxruby already
installed. This should have you up and running quickly for GUI dev on MS
windows.

The one-click installer for ruby has moved to using MingW, so it’s our
best guess as wxRuby developers that this is future platform for ruby on
windows.

alex