From: mengjiang Liu Date: 2010-05-06T16:26:06+09:00 Subject: Failed to build the native extension I used ruby-1.8.7-p249-i386-mingw32.7z on the windows 7 x64, and have installed the devkit. But it failed to build the native extension of eventmachine with error message as follow: H:\study\fybjy\myoa>gem install eventmachine Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing eventmachine: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. H:/ruby/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb checking for rb_trap_immediate in ruby.h,rubysig.h... yes checking for rb_thread_blocking_region()... no checking for inotify_init() in sys/inotify.h... no checking for __NR_inotify_init in sys/syscall.h... no checking for writev() in sys/uio.h... no checking for rb_thread_check_ints()... no checking for rb_time_new()... yes checking for windows.h... yes checking for winsock.h... yes checking for main() in -lkernel32... yes checking for main() in -lrpcrt4... yes checking for main() in -lgdi32... yes checking for main() in -lssl... no creating Makefile make MAKE Version 5.2 Copyright (c) 1987, 1998 Inprise Corp. Fatal: 'ruby.h' does not exist - don't know how to make it Gem files will remain installed in H:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/eventmachine-0.12.10 for inspection. Results logged to H:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/eventmachine-0.12.10/ext/gem_make.out -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.