From: Jano Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2007-06-08T02:16:00+09:00
Subject: Installing Curb Was: Re: ruby libcurl maintainer?

On 6/7/07, Md.elme focruzzaman Shuvo <shuvo.razi@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Mr. Ross Bamford,
>
> I am trying to install istall curb by trying this >gem install curb
> but it show me the following error message:
> -----------------------------------------
> 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.
>
> 1 thing more, I am using windows xp insteed of linus and using ruby
> 1.8.5-2.1.

You need to have installed MSVC 6.0 to install this (and maybe something more).

If you want to do scraping (as your message at bugtracker implies) try
scrubyt/mechanize/hpricot - they are easier to install and should do
the job (they differ in abstraction level, in fact scrubyt uses
mechanize that in turn uses hpricot)

Jano