From: Ilan Berci <ilan.berci@...>
Date: 2009-10-13T21:34:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Rice installation issue.

George Thomas wrote:
> I have rice gem (rice-1.1.0.gem) downloaded to my folder C:\Ruby19
> 
> I have tried the following at command prompt window to install rice.
> 
> gem install rice
> 
> However , I am getting the following error:
> 
> <<
> 
> Building native extensions. This could take a while…
> ERROR:  Error installing rice:
>     ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
> 

You are trying to install a gem that requires compilation and you are on 
Windows box which means that you either don't have a compiler (such as 
MSVC) or you installed the wrong gem (There may be a windows version for 
"rice")

hth

ilan


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