From: Gerson Minichiello <gerson.minichiello@...>
Date: 2008-08-13T11:52:32+09:00
Subject: Re: gem (update ?) problem

On Aug 11, 6:19 am, Peter Krieg <pk....@hotmail.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Does anybody know how to deal with this gem problem ?
>
> Thanks a lot in advance for your help.
>
> After trying to run gem update the message is:
> gem update
> Updating installed gems
> Updating hpricot
> Building native extensions. This could take a while...
> ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError)
> ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
>
> c:/ruby/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb update
> checking for stdio.h... no
> *** 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.
> BBHoss
> Provided configuration options:
> --with-opt-dir
> --without-opt-dir
> --with-opt-include
> --without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
> --with-opt-lib
> --without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
> --with-make-prog
> --srcdir=.
> --curdir
> --ruby=c:/ruby/bin/ruby
>
> Gem files will remain installed in
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/hpricot-0.6.161 for
>
> inspection.
> Results logged to
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/hpricot-0.6.161/ext/fast_xs/gem_make.out
>
> mkmf.log shows:
> have_header: checking for stdio.h... -------------------- no
>
> "cl -nologo -E -I. -Ic:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-mswin32 -I. -MD -Zi
> -O2b2xg- -G6
>
> conftest.c -P"
> checked program was:
> /* begin */
> 1: #include <stdio.h>
> /* end */
>
> --------------------
> --
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi Peter,

Try this command:

gem install hpricot --platform mswin32 --source http://code.whytheluckystiff.net

Gerson.