From: "Md.elme focruzzaman Shuvo" Date: 2007-06-08T00:00:51+09:00 Subject: Curb installation problem on WinXp. Please Help Hello all, I am a new commer in the world of ruby. I have interest on web scraping. So I download curb and try to install it on my winxp pc. but it give me the following error: ---------------------------------------- C:\>gem install curb Need to update 1 gems from http://gems.rubyforge.org . complete Building native extensions. This could take a while... *** extconf.rb failed *** Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of necessary libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more details. You may need configuration options. Provided configuration options: --with-opt-dir --without-opt-dir --with-opt-include --without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include --with-opt-lib --without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib --with-make-prog --srcdir=. --curdir --ruby=c:/ruby/bin/ruby --with-curl-dir --without-curl-dir --with-curl-include --without-curl-include=${curl-dir}/include --with-curl-lib --without-curl-lib=${curl-dir}/lib --with-curllib --without-curllib ERROR: While executing gem ... (RuntimeError) ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. Gem files will remain installed in c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/curb-0.1.2 for inspection. Results logged to c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/curb-0.1.2/ext/gem_make.out ------------------------------------------------------------- Is there any one who help me on this issu? Regards, Shuvo. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.