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  • error ruby.h(106): error C2118: negative subscript when compile ruby 2.

    From Hellio6@21:1/5 to All on Sun Apr 9 06:46:29 2017
    I try to compile ruby 2.4.1 on ruby. after configure I run nmake but getting this error.


    nmake

    Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 14.00.24210.0
    Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

    CC = cl -nologo
    LD = cl -nologo
    LDSHARED = cl -nologo -LD
    CFLAGS = -MD -Zi -W2 -wd4100 -wd4127 -wd4210 -wd4214 -wd4255 -wd4574 -wd4668 -wd4710 -wd4711 -wd4820 -wd4996 -we4028 -we4142 -O2sy- -Zm600
    XCFLAGS = -DRUBY_EXPORT -I. -I.ext/include/x64-mswin64_140 -I./include -I. -I./enc/unicode/9.0.0
    CPPFLAGS = -D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0600
    DLDFLAGS = -incremental:no -debug -opt:ref -opt:icf -dll
    SOLIBS =
    compiling main.c
    main.c
    d:\ruby\ruby-2.4.1\ruby-2.4.1\include\ruby/ruby.h(106): error C2118: negative subscript
    NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\BIN\cl.EXE"' : return code '0x2'
    Stop.

    I look at ruby.h (106) and see this:

    typedef char ruby_check_sizeof_voidp[SIZEOF_VOIDP == sizeof(void*) ? 1 : -1];

    How can we fix this? Any of you successfully compile ruby 2.4.1 on Windows?

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