From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2007-12-30T14:00:01+09:00
Subject: Re: still can't install mswin32 mongrel_service or fastthread

On 30 dic, 02:22, "Jack Johnson" <jjohn...@cyberworlds.com> wrote:
> I still can't get mongrel_service or fastthread to install on my WinXP SP2
> ruby 1.8.6 system, although mongrel and several others have installed &
> updated OK. (Checking my notes, I'm also having the same problem updating
> win32-api & win32-service.) Any tips or insights appreciated.
>

This has been reported many times, but again will put information of
this:

mongrel_service (0.3.3) depends on win32-service, which was 0.5.2 at
the time the gem was created, but now is 0.6.0

The 0.6.0 gem is broken, and that should be reported to win32utils
guys or their tracker:

http://rubyforge.org/projects/win32utils

Technical details: gem was rubygems 0.9.5, which was broken under
windows. They need to fix this.

I'm working on complete removal of win32-service dependency from
mongrel_service, but I'm overloaded with work and cannot commit to the
task right now.

I suggest you install win32-service 0.5.2:

gem uninstall win32-service
gem install win32-service -v '0.5.2'

then try installing mongrel_service gem again.

If that didn't work, you must revert to RubyGems 0.9.4 and install
everything there before, as described here:

http://blog.mmediasys.com/2007/12/19/latest-rubygems-and-rails-is-a-deadly-combo


> C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>gem install fastthread
> Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
> ERROR:  Error installing fastthread:
>         ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

I've updated the fastthread gem on rubyforge a few weeks back and it
seems the changes didn't replicate to the rubyforge mirrors.

please, manually download the gem from rubyforge:

http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=1306&release_id=15826

and install it locally:

gem install fastthread-1.0.1-i386-mswin32.gem

That should work.

HTH,

Luis Lavena