From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2010-02-26T18:15:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Unable to install libxml-ruby on Win2k3 machine

On Feb 26, 12:45 am, Sirisha Pusapati <pusapatisiri...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am trying to install libxml using the command libxml-ruby and I am
> seeing the following errors.
>
> Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
> ERROR:  Error installing libxml-ruby:
>         ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
>
> D:/Ruby/bin/ruby.exe -rubygems
> D:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/bin/rak
> e
> RUBYARCHDIR=D:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/libxml-ruby-1.1.3-x86-mswin32-60 /li
> b
> RUBYLIBDIR=D:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/libxml-ruby-1.1.3-x86-mswin32-60/ lib
>
> rake aborted!
> No Rakefile found (looking for: rakefile, Rakefile, rakefile.rb,
> Rakefile.rb)
> D:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2377:in
> `raw_load_rakefile
> '
> (See full trace by running task with --trace)
>
> Gem files will remain installed in
> D:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/libxml-ruby-1.
> 1.3-x86-mswin32-60 for inspection.
> Results logged to
> D:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/libxml-ruby-1.1.3-x86-mswin32-6
> 0/ext/mingw/gem_make.out
>
> MY PATH is
>
> Path=D:\Ruby\bin;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C: \Prog
> ram Files\Microsoft ADS\bin;C:\Program Files\Microsoft
> ADS\tools;c:\devtools;c:\
> localbin;C:\Program Files\BladeLogic\OM\bin
>
> Can you guys tell me what I am missing
>

Please provide information of the Ruby version you're using ('gem env'
will be enough)

Appears that you're using the VC6 build of ruby (i386-mswin32) which
requires you have Visual C 6.0 installed (no longer available)

Please confirm this, and if so, then I would recommend usage of
RubyInstaller[1] packages with the DevKit[2] to get a stable Ruby
environment with compiler.

[1] http://rubyinstaller.org/
[2] http://rubyinstaller.org/download.html

--
Luis Lavena