Updating GEMS using nmake

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I am trying to update the win32-api (standard) gem using Netbeans IDE. but I am getting an error from nmake.

     Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 1.50      Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-94. All rights reserved.

       cl -nologo -I. -I. -IC:/www/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-mswin32 -I. - MD -Zi -O2b2xg- -G6 -c -Tcwin32/api.c      'cl' is not recognized as an internal or external command,      operable program or batch file.      NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe' : return code '0x1'      Stop.

I have only just downloaded nmake in order to update and don't know how to use it or what this operation is doing.

Does anybody have any pointers?

Thanks,

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cl is the MS compiler for the C language. Normally, open source stuff provides a windows binary. I just ran into a similar situation with ruby-debug. The ruby-debug gem wants a specific version of the C compiler. Exactly version 1200, which should be 12.0, I think.

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