From: Dejan Dimic <dejan.dimic@...>
Date: 2007-12-31T00:50:04+09:00
Subject: Re: still can't install mswin32 mongrel_service or fastthread

On Dec 30, 5:59 am, Luis Lavena <luislav...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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-d...
>
> > 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

By my experience there is two ways:
First you can revert to gem 0.94 and then install mongrel_service
witch is not what I like to do
Second require that you have C++ compiler and linker in you path in
order to build the native extensions.
I have tried with different ones, but the MS Visual C++ 6.0 has done
the trick.