From: "Mike G." <goldsby@...>
Date: 2010-10-28T05:19:31+09:00
Subject: Problem installing win32-api gem on Windows

I'm behind a firewall that prevents me from just doing
   gem install <whatever>

So I downloaded the zip file for win32-api-1.0.4 (I know, it's an old
version, but it runs with our existing software--later versions changed
the api).

I installed mingw on the windows target machine.

I got past numerous problems and persuaded it to build api.o from api.c
and then api.so from api.o.  But now when I do
    gem install win32-api-1.0.4.gem
it complains all over again that it can't find api.so.

It's opaque to me what I need to do to finish the installation.

Can anyone offer a suggestion?

Thanks,
--Mike

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