Tony,
I'm very glad to hear that P4Ruby already supports OS X,
I'll definitely
let you know if/when I get it working on my Powerbook.
I'll follow the Cygwin configure/build/install instructions
and will
report on my success (or lack thereof 
Thanks for your quick response!
Bree
-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Smith [mailto:tony smee.org]
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 11:12 AM
To: p4rubyperforce.com
Cc: Bree Van Oss
Subject: Re: [p4ruby] Cygwin install question
Hi Bree,
> I'm having some issues getting P4Ruby
installed/configured on Windows.
> I used the Windows installer and after the installation
completed I
> found that it had placed the files in
C:\usr\lib\ruby\1.8. However,
> after the installation, ruby (via Cygwin) didn't know
about the P4
> module. I manually copied the P4.rb file to
C:\cygwin\lib\ruby\1.8\P4
> and the P4.so file to
C:\cygwin\usr\lib\ruby\1.8\i386-cygwin, but I'm
> now getting a confusing error.
>
> The error message follows.
>
> bash-3.1$ ruby -rP4 -e 'puts( P4.identify )'
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-cygwin/P4.so: No such file or
directory -
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-cygwin/P4.so
> (LoadError)
> bash-3.1$
For Cygwin's Ruby (which is a completely different beast to
the native
Win32
build of Ruby), you'll need to build P4Ruby from source.
Download the
Cygwin
build of the Perforce API, and the P4Ruby source, and follow
the build
instructions. Let me know if you have any problems.
The Cygwin API is here:
ftp://ftp.perforce.com/perforce/r05.1/bin.cygwinx86/p4api.ta
r
(2005.1 is the latest build that's posted on the FTP site,
it's
built-on-request though, so if you want a 2006.1 build
contact
supportperforce.com and ask them to request the build for
you).
> I must admit that I'm a bit new to Ruby, so please
bare with me, but
> I'm very keen to get this to work. I'm also
interested in helping to
> port the P4Ruby bindings to OS X.
P4Ruby already runs on OS X  . I also
suspect (but haven't yet proved)
that
the nasty hack I did to make it work on older versions of OS
X isn't
required
on 10.4, so it should be a pretty easy port. If you get a
chance to
confirm
that for me, I'd appreciate it.
Thanks,
Tony
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