no such file to load -- glib2.so

[Skyblues]

Greetings,

I was trying out Red Shoes but discovered that I can not "require" a few gems I will need for my programs (serialport, prawn) so I decided to try green_shoes. I installed green_shoes and when I ran the 'welcome' script, I get the following error:

"no such file to load -- glib2.so"

Here is the script I am running:
require 'green_shoes'

Shoes.app do
para "Welcome to Shoes"
end

I am using the following:
Windows 7
ruby 1.9.2p290 (2011-07-09) [i386-mingw32]
green_shoes (1.1.374)
gtk2 (2.0.2 x86-mingw32)

Here is the entire error:
no such file to load -- glib2.so

D:/Development/Ruby192/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in require' D:/Development/Ruby192/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:inrequire'
D:/Development/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/glib2-2.0.2-x86-mingw32/lib/glib2.rb:101:in rescue in <top (required)>' D:/Development/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/glib2-2.0.2-x86-mingw32/lib/glib2.rb:97:in<top (required)>'
D:/Development/Ruby192/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in require' D:/Development/Ruby192/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:inrequire'
D:/Development/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/pango-2.0.2-x86-mingw32/lib/pango.rb:9:in <top (required)>' D:/Development/Ruby192/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:inrequire'
D:/Development/Ruby192/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in require' D:/Development/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/green_shoes-1.1.374/lib/green_shoes.rb:4:in<top (required)>'
D:/Development/Ruby192/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:57:in require' D:/Development/Ruby192/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:57:inrescue in require'
D:/Development/Ruby192/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:35:in require' G:/scripts/shoes/test-3.rb:1:in

'
D:/Development/Ruby192/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in require': no such file to load -- glib2.so (LoadError) from D:/Development/Ruby192/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:inrequire'
from D:/Development/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/glib2-2.0.2-x86-mingw32/lib/glib2.rb:101:in rescue in <top (required)>' from D:/Development/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/glib2-2.0.2-x86-mingw32/lib/glib2.rb:97:in<top (required)>'
from D:/Development/Ruby192/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in require' from D:/Development/Ruby192/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:inrequire'
from D:/Development/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/pango-2.0.2-x86-mingw32/lib/pango.rb:9:in <top (required)>' from D:/Development/Ruby192/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:inrequire'
from D:/Development/Ruby192/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in require' from D:/Development/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/green_shoes-1.1.374/lib/green_shoes.rb:4:in<top (required)>'
from D:/Development/Ruby192/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:57:in require' from D:/Development/Ruby192/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:57:inrescue in require'
from D:/Development/Ruby192/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:35:in require' from G:/shoes/test-3.rb:1:in'

Thank you for the help,
Jim

[ashbb]

Hi @Skyblues,

Umm,... strange. How did you install Green Shoes?

If you installed Green Shoes by gem install green_shoes, all runtime dependencies should be installed...

The following is the list of gems on my Windows 7.
GTK2 requires all of them.

C:\tmp>ruby -v
ruby 1.9.3p448 (2013-06-27) [i386-mingw32]
C:\tmp>gem list
*** LOCAL GEMS ***
atk (2.0.2 x86-mingw32)
bigdecimal (1.1.0)
cairo (1.12.6 x86-mingw32)
gdk_pixbuf2 (2.0.2 x86-mingw32)
glib2 (2.0.2 x86-mingw32)
green_shoes (1.1.374)
gtk2 (2.0.2 x86-mingw32)
io-console (0.3)
json (1.5.5)
minitest (2.5.1)
pango (2.0.2 x86-mingw32)
pkg-config (1.1.4)
rake (0.9.2.2)
rdoc (3.9.5)

[Skyblues]

Hi ashbb,

Thanks for replying,

I installed using gem install green_shoes. I checked all the gems you mentioned and the following two were missing:

bigdecimal was missing
so I installed bigdecimal (1.2.1)

io-console was missing but, apparently, it needs ruby 1.9.3
I can't use ruby 1.9.3 (some of my other critical gems don't work with 1.9.3). I tried a 1.9.3 version a while back and if I remember correctly, it was the 'roo' gem that didn't work and I need that one for a program I wrote that compares a spreadheet with an MS Access database so I can't live without it.

I also need 'win32ole', 'serialport', 'prawn'.

I have been wanting to wrap some of my Ruby programs in a GUI wrapper. I tried wxRuby and although it was nice, when I used OCRA to package it up, it was waaaaaay too slow. So, I tried Shoes which I really liked but, no dice, I can't use the gems I need mentioned above. So I wanted to try green_shoes so I could use the gems I need and package it up with OCRA so would really like to find a solution. Is there a way I can run two versions of Ruby on my machine?

The rest were there:
atk (2.0.2 x86-mingw32)
cairo (1.12.6 x86-mingw32)
gdk_pixbuf2 (2.0.2 x86-mingw32)
glib2 (2.0.2 x86-mingw32)
green_shoes (1.1.374)
gtk2 (2.0.2 x86-mingw32)
json (1.7.7)
minitest (4.7.0, 1.6.0)
pango (2.0.2 x86-mingw32)
pkg-config (1.1.4)
rake (10.0.4, 0.8.7)
rdoc (3.12, 2.5.8)

Thank you, I really appreciate your help,
Jim

[Skyblues]

Ok, just as an experiment, I installed ruby-1.9.3-p448, green_shoes and my other needed gems and all seems to works fine. The problem is (and now I remember why I couldn't use ruby-1.9.3) OCRA won't work with ruby-1.9.3. At the end of the OCRA compile, I get the following error:

"lzma.exe is not a valid Win32 application."

Any suggestions? I really want to get this to work.

Thanks,
Jim

[ashbb]

Hi Jim,

I found my old environment with ruby 1.9.2.

C:\tmp>ruby -v
ruby 1.9.2p290 (2011-07-09) [i386-mingw32]
C:\tmp>gem list
*** LOCAL GEMS ***
atk (1.0.4 x86-mingw32)
bundler (1.0.18)
cairo (1.10.1 x86-mingw32)
gdk_pixbuf2 (1.0.4 x86-mingw32)
git (1.2.5)
glib2 (1.0.4 x86-mingw32)
green_shoes (1.0.322)
gtk2 (1.0.4 x86-mingw32)
jeweler (1.6.4)
minitest (1.6.0)
pango (1.0.4 x86-mingw32)
pkg-config (1.1.2)
rake (0.8.7)
rdoc (2.5.8)
rubygems-update (1.8.10)

I've not tried the latest version of Green Shoes, though.
Hope this helps.