From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2010-10-15T23:20:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Problems with gem installation on Windows

On Oct 15, 9:47 am, Roman Parashchenko <romikoo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am looking for ruby expert for installing 'libxslt-ruby' gem on
> Windows with Ruby 1.9.2 via Bundler.
>
> The main problem is it is dependent on the following libraries to
> function properly:
>
>     * libm (math routines: very standard)
>     * libz (zlib)
>     * libiconv
>     * libxml2
>     * libxslt
>     * libxml-ruby bindings
>
> Can anybody help me?

Please ask the gem author to provide binaries for MinGW based ruby
(RubyInstaller) -- which is hte one I assume you're using.

Indicate to him to look at projects like sqlite3-ruby, nokogiri and
rake-compiler on GitHub:

http://github.com/luislavena/rake-compiler
http://github.com/luislavena/sqlite3-ruby
http://github.com/tenderlove/nokogiri

rake-compiler provides the building blocks to create binary gems from
Linux or OSX.

Examples of usage generating "fat-binaries" supporting both 1.8 and
1.9 are in sqlite3-ruby and nokogiri build and uses libxml, which may
serve as guidance.

You can also point the developer to RubyInstaller group:

http://groups.google.com/group/rubyinstaller/

Where other Windows Ruby developers might help him getting things
working to provide these binaries.

I know it doesn't solve the problem, but is a start.

--
Luis Lavena