From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2007-10-09T02:46:55+09:00
Subject: Re: "gem install ncurses" on Windows



On Oct 8, 10:35 am, Eric Hodel <drbr...@segment7.net> wrote:
> On Oct 8, 2007, at 01:48 , Christopher W, wrote:
>
> > (This may not be the right place for RubyGem support. If it is not, a
> > pointer to the correct location would be nice.)
>
> > I am trying to install the ncurses gem on Windows. I installed Ruby
> > 1.8.6 using the 1-click-installer and have gem 0.9.2.
>
> > Simply typing "gem install ncurses" resulted in this error:
> >> ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
> >> ruby extconf.rb install ncurses
> >> <SNIP>
> >> extconf.rb:35: ncurses header file not found (RuntimeError)
>
> > So, I downloaded, extracted, and compiled PDCurses 3.3 from
> >http://pdcurses.sourceforge.net/using MSVC 2005 (version 1400 or
> > something).
>
> You'll need MSVC6 to link correctly.  Somebody more familiar with the  
> inner workings of Windows compiling will probably pop in and tell you  
> why RSN.

My guess would be that he needs to pass a "--with-ncurses-dir=C:/path/
to/ncurses" directive so that the bindings can find the header files
they need. I can't remember how you do that with gems. Just tack it on
at the end?

Regards,

Dan