From: "John T." <johnts@...>
Date: 2009-06-05T21:53:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Can't install sqlite3-ruby gem in Windows

Luis Lavena wrote:
> On Jun 4, 1:32�pm, Nova Pon <nova....@gmail.com> wrote:

>> Please help!! Thanks
> 
> This has been covered before on this list, but just for the record:
> 
> Latest version of sqlite3-ruby lacks binaries for Windows. For you to
> build using version 1.2.4 of the gem also requires a compiler, which
> in your case must be Microsoft Visual C 6.0

This is not quite true. I have several versions of Visual Studio on this 
system - VC 6, Visual Studio 2003, 2005 and 2008, and none of these can 
compile the gem, they all kick out various errors.

> Since is an obsolete compiler, highly unlikely you will find a
> downloadable version.
> 
> Please force the installation to prior version:
> 
> gem install sqlite3-ruby -v=1.2.3


This is the only solution. Especially since the (ex)maintainer of gem is 
not supporting it anymore.
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