From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2004-11-27T03:32:10+09:00
Subject: Re: gem errors

On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 03:27:55 +0900, itsme213 <itsme213@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I've seen this error for a couple of gems when I try to install. Am I doing
> something wrong? Thanks!
> 
> [C:\Documents and Settings\desmond]gem install genx4r
> Attempting local installation of 'genx4r'
> Local gem file not found: genx4r*.gem
> Attempting remote installation of 'genx4r'
> Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Errno::ENOENT)
>     No such file or directory - nmake

genx4r requires compiling a component because it's an extension. If
you have the VisualStudio.NET 2003 or Visual C++ 7 free compiler
installed, you need to start a command-line from the appropriate icon
to set up the compiler's environment variables first. Then you can
probably get it to work. Maybe :)

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