From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2007-07-28T20:55:16+09:00
Subject: Re: issue with gem

On 7/27/07, Simon Schuster <significants@gmail.com> wrote:
> whenever I install something via gem which presents a menu of options
> to me (versions, and 'ruby' vs 'mswin32' , I make my selection and it
> gives me this:
>
> > 1
> Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
> extconf.rb:4:in `require': no such file to load -- mkmf (LoadError)
>         from extconf.rb:4

It sort of looks like you built ruby without some necessary libraries
and/or development tools.

Todd