trouble installing CPAN module "Ruby"

[technojosh]

I come to the monks for assistance. I have a large bit of Perl code and modules I have written for our company. We are now going to try to get a bit of work somebody has done in a ruby class, integrated into my project. My ideal solution for this is some flavor of inline ruby, or otherwise accessing the ruby interpreter on the system to interact with a ruby class from within our Perl code.

I am on Windows 7, using AS Perl 5.14 (x86)
CPAN: Ruby

I get the makefile to run successfully. It's output:

C:\Ruby-0.07>perl makefile.pl
Set up gcc environment - 3.4.5 (mingw-vista special r3)
Using C:\Ruby192\bin\ruby.exe
ruby 1.9.2p290 (2011-07-09) [i386-mingw32]

ruby-inc: C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/1.9.1/i386-mingw32
libdir  : C:/Ruby192/lib
ruby-lib: -lmsvcrt-ruby191
ruby-hdr: C:/Ruby192/include/ruby-1.9.1
Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lmsvcrt-ruby191
Writing Makefile for Ruby
Writing MYMETA.yml

When I run dmake, most of the output seems benign but there are two errors near the end and it does not complete successfully:

cp Ruby/intern.h blib\lib\Ruby\intern.h
cp lib/Ruby/PerlObject.pod blib\lib\Ruby\PerlObject.pod
cp Ruby/oniguruma.h blib\lib\Ruby\oniguruma.h
cp Ruby/regex.h blib\lib\Ruby\regex.h
cp lib/Ruby/Inspect.pm blib\lib\Ruby\Inspect.pm
cp Ruby/util.h blib\lib\Ruby\util.h
cp Ruby/backward/rubyio.h blib\lib\Ruby\backward\rubyio.h
cp Ruby/io.h blib\lib\Ruby\io.h
cp Ruby/version.h blib\lib\Ruby\version.h
cp Ruby/backward/util.h blib\lib\Ruby\backward\util.h
cp Ruby/dl.h blib\lib\Ruby\dl.h
cp Ruby/vm.h blib\lib\Ruby\vm.h
cp Ruby/encoding.h blib\lib\Ruby\encoding.h
cp Ruby/backward/rubysig.h blib\lib\Ruby\backward\rubysig.h
cp lib/Ruby/Run.pm blib\lib\Ruby\Run.pm
cp lib/Ruby.pod blib\lib\Ruby.pod
cp Ruby/backward/st.h blib\lib\Ruby\backward\st.h
cp lib/Ruby/Object.pod blib\lib\Ruby\Object.pod
cp Ruby/win32.h blib\lib\Ruby\win32.h
cp Ruby/defines.h blib\lib\Ruby\defines.h
cp Ruby/re.h blib\lib\Ruby\re.h
cp Ruby/st.h blib\lib\Ruby\st.h
cp Ruby/missing.h blib\lib\Ruby\missing.h
cp Ruby/digest.h blib\lib\Ruby\digest.h
cp lib/Ruby.pm blib\lib\Ruby.pm
cp lib/Ruby/literal.pm blib\lib\Ruby\literal.pm
cp Ruby/ruby.h blib\lib\Ruby\ruby.h
cp lib/Ruby/autobox.pm blib\lib\Ruby\autobox.pm
C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe C:\Perl\lib\ExtUtils\xsubpp  -typemap C:\Perl\lib
+\ExtUtils\typem
ap -typemap typemap  Ruby.xs > Ruby.xsc && C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe -MExtU
+tils::Command -
e "mv" -- Ruby.xsc Ruby.c
C:/Perl/site/bin/gcc.exe -c  -I"C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/1.9.1/i386-mingw32
+" -I"C:/Ruby192
/include/ruby-1.9.1" -I"C:/Ruby192/include/ruby-1.9.1/i386-mingw32"   
+  -DNDEBUG -DWI
N32 -D_CONSOLE -DNO_STRICT -DPERL_TEXTMODE_SCRIPTS -DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE
+ -DPERL_IMPLICI
T_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO -D_USE_32BIT_TIME_T -DHASAT
+TRIBUTE -fno-st
rict-aliasing -mms-bitfields -O2          -DVERSION=\"0.07\"    -DXS_V
+ERSION=\"0.07\"
  "-IC:\Perl\lib\CORE"  -DMY_RUBY_VERSION="1.9.2" -DMY_RUBY_VERSION_IN
+T="192" Ruby.c
In file included from C:/Perl/lib/CORE/win32thread.h:4,
                 from C:/Perl/lib/CORE/perl.h:2852,
                 from ruby_pm.h:88,
                 from Ruby.xs:5:
C:/Perl/lib/CORE/win32.h:263: warning: useless keyword or type name in
+ empty declarat
ion
C:/Perl/lib/CORE/win32.h:263: warning: empty declaration
C:/Perl/lib/CORE/win32.h:264: warning: useless keyword or type name in
+ empty declarat
ion
C:/Perl/lib/CORE/win32.h:264: warning: empty declaration
In file included from ruby_pm.h:89,
                 from Ruby.xs:5:
C:/Perl/lib/CORE/XSUB.h:513:1: warning: "access" redefined
In file included from C:/Ruby192/include/ruby-1.9.1/ruby/defines.h:205
+,
                 from C:/Ruby192/include/ruby-1.9.1/ruby/ruby.h:74,
                 from ruby_pm.h:19,
                 from Ruby.xs:5:
C:/Ruby192/include/ruby-1.9.1/ruby/win32.h:197:1: warning: this is the
+ location of th
e previous definition
In file included from ruby_pm.h:89,
                 from Ruby.xs:5:
C:/Perl/lib/CORE/XSUB.h:520:1: warning: "fstat" redefined
In file included from C:/Ruby192/include/ruby-1.9.1/ruby/defines.h:205
+,
                 from C:/Ruby192/include/ruby-1.9.1/ruby/ruby.h:74,
                 from ruby_pm.h:19,
                 from Ruby.xs:5:
C:/Ruby192/include/ruby-1.9.1/ruby/win32.h:180:1: warning: this is the
+ location of th
e previous definition
Ruby.xs: In function `XS_Ruby__Object_FIRSTKEY':
Ruby.xs:472: warning: use of conditional expressions as lvalues is dep
+recated
Ruby.xs:472: error: invalid lvalue in assignment
Ruby.xs: In function `XS_Ruby__Object_NEXTKEY':
Ruby.xs:494: warning: use of conditional expressions as lvalues is dep
+recated
Ruby.xs:494: warning: use of compound expressions as lvalues is deprec
+ated
Ruby.xs:494: error: invalid lvalue in decrement
dmake.exe:  Error code 129, while making 'Ruby.o'

What I am wondering, is if this is really just a code issue in the XS module? Does anyone else ever use this, or any brand of "inline ruby" style code? I have looked at the Inline::Ruby module, but it has even more issues with installation than this one does! (and the docs say it has only been tested on linux)

At the end of the day, I'm really just looking for a simple implementation of inline ruby, so if there is a better/easier/different but equal alternative that I am not considering please suggest it!

[Anonymous Monk]

Sadly, its a known issue

https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Ruby

Bug #61013 for Ruby: not work on win32 systems

Bug #56261 for Ruby: Tests fail with perl 5.12.0