From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2007-03-28T11:50:48+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyNodes gems and setup.rb failing....

On Mar 27, 2007, at 13:41, Sonny Chee wrote:
> Anyone have success installing the rubynode package. I've tried  
> both the
> gem install and the setup.rb without any success. The messages  
> returned
> by each method are shown below.  Any hints would be greatly  
> appreciated.
>
> C:\ruby>gem install rubynode
> Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
>
> ---> ext/rubynode_ext
> nmake
> setup.rb:655:in `command': system("nmake") failed (RuntimeError)
>
> So I'm guessing my issue is I need to install a 'nmake' program for XP
> ...?

You need a compiler (and its environment) to compile and install  
binary gems.