From: Nilbert Nullingsworth <yakahughes@...>
Date: 2010-01-23T00:00:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby c extensions on windows

I cannot follow this tutorial for some reason. I have no idea what to
do after I've got the files set up, make is not a recognized command,
and trying to do the rake leads to about three errors like this:

error loading "C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/hoe-2.5.0/lib/hoe/
rubyforge.rb":
 182: The operating system cannot run %1.   - C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.9.1/
i386-mswin3
2/openssl.so. skipping...

and then fails with 'rake aborted!'.

I also cannot find the mt.exe that other tutorials say to use, even
though I have Visual Studio Express 2008 installed, along with the
windows sdk and all it's components.

Why is writing a ruby extension so hard?