Bug #11866: (mingw32) Cannot install or update io-console

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 2.2.3p173 (2015-08-18 revision 51636) [x64-mingw32]
• Backport: 2.0.0: DONTNEED, 2.1: DONTNEED, 2.2: DONTNEED

[thany (Martijn Saly)]

gem update fails because it tries to update io-console, which cannot update (or install) itself.

Here's the full output:

λ gem install io-console
Temporarily enhancing PATH to include DevKit...
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing io-console:
        ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

    current directory: C:/Ruby22-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/gems/io-console-0.4.4
C:/Ruby22-x64/bin/ruby.exe -r ./siteconf20151223-1500-1scn961.rb extconf.rb
creating Makefile

To see why this extension failed to compile, please check the mkmf.log which can be found here:

  C:/Ruby22-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/extensions/x64-mingw32/2.2.0/io-console-0.4.4/mkmf.log

current directory: C:/Ruby22-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/gems/io-console-0.4.4
make "DESTDIR=" clean

current directory: C:/Ruby22-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/gems/io-console-0.4.4
make "DESTDIR="
generating console-x64-mingw32.def
compiling console.c
console.c:710:24: fatal error: win32_vk.inc: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make: *** [console.o] Error 1

make failed, exit code 2

Gem files will remain installed in C:/Ruby22-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/gems/io-console-0.4.4 for inspection.
Results logged to C:/Ruby22-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/extensions/x64-mingw32/2.2.0/io-console-0.4.4/gem_make.out

The log file mentioned will be attached.

This is on Windows 10 x64, using the latest found RubyInstaller 2.2.3-x64. Gem is at version 2.5.1.

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Description updated (diff)
• Status changed from Open to Feedback

Sorry, some files are missing.
Could you try http://www.rubyist.net/~nobu/ruby/io-console-0.4.4.gem ?

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Status changed from Feedback to Closed

Applied in changeset r53266.

---

io/console: fix gem build failure on Windows

• ext/io/console/extconf.rb: fix gem build failure on Windows.
  only win32_vk.inc is included in the gem and no dependencies for
  the header, so that gperf will not be mandatory.
  [ruby-core:72453] [Bug #11866]
• ext/io/console/io-console.gemspec: include depend file and
  win32_vk header.

[usa (Usaku NAKAMURA)]

• Backport changed from 2.0.0: UNKNOWN, 2.1: UNKNOWN, 2.2: UNKNOWN to 2.0.0: DONTNEED, 2.1: DONTNEED, 2.2: DONTNEED