I've been trying to move a Rails 2.3.8 app from OXS to Windows XP for demonstration purposes. I'm having a problem with some of the gems; linecache is one. When I try to install the linecache gem, I get the following:
gem install linecache
Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing linecache: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
C:/Ruby187/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb creating Makefile
make 'make' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
Gem files will remain installed in C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ linecache-0 .43 for inspection. Results logged to C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/linecache-0.43/ext/ gem_make. out
Gem environment is:
gem environment
RubyGems Environment: - RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.3.7 - RUBY VERSION: 1.8.7 (2010-08-16 patchlevel 302) [i386-mingw32] - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8 - RUBY EXECUTABLE: C:/Ruby187/bin/ruby.exe - EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: C:/Ruby187/bin - RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS: - ruby - x86-mingw32 - GEM PATHS: - C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8 - C:/Documents and Settings/fencore/.gem/ruby/1.8 - GEM CONFIGURATION: - :update_sources => true - :verbose => true - :benchmark => false - :backtrace => false - :bulk_threshold => 1000 - :sources => ["http://rubygems.org/", "http://gems.github.com"] - REMOTE SOURCES: - http://rubygems.org/ - http://gems.github.com
I notice that the platform for the gem is ms-win32, which is presumably why it fails. This is an issue because I have to prepare some laptops for a client who wants to develop on windows boxes, so I'd like to understand what is going on here. I'd also point out that the same thing happems with ruby-debug; I haven't gone through the whole list of gems that I need yet.
I can force an install with --platform ms-win32 but that seems a dubious approach to take.
Does anybody have a work-around for this problem?
