From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2010-10-15T09:30:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Gem Commands with Nokogiri

On Oct 14, 9:08 pm, flebber <flebber.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am on windows XP.
>
> trying to install nokogiri. I have the devkit installed.
>
> I received the error below. So I am trying to use the commands based
> on its output but they are erroring for me as well.
>

Nokogiri already provides binaries for RubyInstaller precisely to
avoid the compilation problems.

https://rubygems.org/gems/nokogiri

> PS C:\devkit> gem install nokogiri --with-xml2-lib --with-xslt-lib --
> platform=ruby
> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (OptionParser::InvalidOption)
>     invalid option: --with-xml2-lib
> PS C:\devkit> gem install nokogiri --with-xml2-include --with-xslt-
> include --platform=ruby
> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (OptionParser::InvalidOption)
>     invalid option: --with-xml2-include
> PS C:\devkit> gem install xml2 --platform=ruby

If you want to supply options to the gem compilation process, you to
do that after --:

gem install foo -- --with-my-lib

Also note that you need libxml2 headers and libraries to compile
against.

On a second comment, seems you're using PowerShell. Batch files that
modify the PATH might not work as expected inside PowerShell.

> libxml2 is missing.  please visithttp://nokogiri.org/tutorials/installing_nokogiri.html
> for help with installing depend
> encies.

If you check the installation instructions for Windows, it has already
provided a binary for it so you don't need to compile it.

--
Luis Lavena