[Ironruby-core] Build issues?

[John Lam (DLR)]

Tomas Restrepo:

> Am I the only one having issues building the current IronRuby/DLR code?
>
> Some of the issues I've noticed:
>
> 1- "rake compile" seems to brake for me always, because it deletes the
> output directory first but doesn't recreate it, and then the
> compilation for the resources in Microsoft.Scripting.dll breaks
> because of it.
>
> 2- Manually creating the output directory and then doing "rake
> compile_dlr" followed by "rake compile_ruby" works around the issue.
> But, that brings me to another point: There doesn't seem to be a rake
> option to build IronRuby.Libraries!

Umm ... rake compile_libraries?

Smells like you have an older version of the Rakefile there?

>
> 3- Building using msbuild.... not working so well, either, as some of
> the projects still seem to have project references that use the old
> directory names...

You'll need to use the IronRuby.sln solution and not Ruby.sln. This runs fine here:

msbuild /p:Configuration="Debug" IronRuby.sln

-John