From: Jeremy Bopp <jeremy@...>
Date: 2010-10-28T05:36:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem installing win32-api gem on Windows

On 10/27/2010 3:19 PM, Mike G. wrote:
> 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?

I can't offer a suggestion for your build problems, but have you tried
downloading the gem itself manually the same way you did for the source
code zip file and then have gem install that?  One of these links should
get you what you need:

http://rubygems.org/downloads/win32-api-1.0.4-mswin32.gem
http://rubygems.org/downloads/win32-api-1.0.4-x86-mswin32-60.gem

Then, assuming you used the first link, simply run:

gem install win32-api-1.0.4-mswin32.gem


-Jeremy