From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2006-03-07T00:45:14+09:00
Subject: Re: installing win32-process

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rtilley [mailto:rtilley@vt.edu] 
> Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 7:44 AM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: installing win32-process
> 
> 
> Can this be installed with gem?
> 
> I don't have a C compiler. According to the README in the 
> win32-process-0.3.2 zip file, I need one to install. Why 
> can't I use gem 
> to get it?
> 
> When I do 'gem query --remote --name-matches win32' I see these gems:
> 
> win32-clipboard
> win32-sapi
> win32-service
> win32-sound
> 
> But none of the other win32 packages.
> 
> I'm new to Ruby, perhaps I'm doing something wrong. Any tips?

There isn't a gem yet for win32-process.  Your best option is to either
use the win32utils-installer, which contains a installs a series of
precompiled binaries, or to download the process-0.3.2.so file on the
RubyForge 'files' page (and rename it to process.so), and install it by
hand.

Regards,

Dan