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Mebius
Mebius

Reputation: 105

Cygwin's Ruby malfunctions

I'm trying to develop in Ruby under a windows environment using cygwin. So far, in order to get ruby working, I tried installing it via rvm which ended up with compilation errors. So I tried installing directly the Ruby version cygwin's installer provides with a fresh install of cygwin, adding only Ruby and the silver-searcher to the default package set.

ruby -v

Cygwin "freezes" like it's busy doing something and ends up outputing nothing. By the way, It does exactly the same thing with silver-searcher which usually functions as intended... I didn't import any custom dotfiles to be sure my dotfiles were not messing with this Ruby install. Any clues on how to fix that?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 32

Answers (1)

matzeri
matzeri

Reputation: 8496

The correct output should be

$ ruby -v
ruby 2.2.5p319 (2016-04-26 revision 54774) [x86_64-cygwin]

2 main possibilities:

1st the installation is broken, so run cygcheck -c and check if something is missing and reinstall the broken packages.

2nd (more likely) a third party software, usually an antivirus, is interfering. See https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.using.bloda for details.

You can also follows the guideline at https://cygwin.com/problems.html and ask help on the cygwin general mailing list (https://cygwin.com/lists.html) providing there the requested cygcheck.out

Upvotes: 1

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