From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2010-10-28T08:20:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem installing win32-api gem on Windows

On Oct 27, 5:19 pm, "Mike G." <gold...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm behind a firewall that prevents me from just doing
>    gem install <whatever>

gem help install

see --http-proxy and provide that during gem installation or set the
HTTP_PROXY environment variable.

gem install xxx --http-proxy http://firewallserver:port

> 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.
>

You didn't say which version of Ruby you're trying to compile win32-
api for, so I assume is RubyInstaller and you installed the DevKit.

> 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.
>

All that could have been avoided, download win32-api gem and with
RubyInstaller + DevKit you can issue:

gem install --local win32-api-1.0.4.gem

But, we need more information on which version of Ruby you're talking
about. Preferably the output of "gem env"

Saying this because win32-api pre-compiled gems do not include support
for Ruby 1.9 (if that is your Ruby installation).

--
Luis Lavena