From: Nikita Kuznetsov <moog_master@...>
Date: 2010-12-08T00:30:02+09:00
Subject: Re: installing ncurses and IDE

Alright i will give it a go. Also, any1 got an idea on how to get this 
to work on windows vista ruby:1.9.2?
I am constantly getting the same error when i run gem install ncurses

C:\Users\Moog>gem install ncurses
Temporarily enhancing PATH to include DevKit...
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing ncurses:
        ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

C:/Ruby192/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for ncurses.h... no
checking for ncurses/curses.h... no
checking for curses.h... no
*** extconf.rb failed ***
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of
necessary libraries and/or headers.  Check the mkmf.log file for more
details.  You may need configuration options.

Provided configuration options:
        --with-opt-dir
        --without-opt-dir
        --with-opt-include
        --without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
        --with-opt-lib
        --without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
        --with-make-prog
        --without-make-prog
        --srcdir=.
        --curdir
        --ruby=C:/Ruby192/bin/ruby
extconf.rb:35:in `<main>': ncurses header file not found (RuntimeError)


Gem files will remain installed in 
C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/ncurses-0.9.1 for inspection.
Results logged to 
C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/ncurses-0.9.1/gem_make.out

obviously there is a ncurses.h file missing somewhere.
Online i found that i could run the program without installing the 
ncurses library, by just downloading the ncurses library from the 
berlios website and just stick in the ncurses.rb and the ncurses.so 
files into my program folder. Sure i did that, but then i got an error 
saying i need ncurses_bin.so (i ofc tried to rename ncurses.so to 
ncurses_bin.so but ofcourse that was not the solution :))) ).  any ideas 
on what is going wrong?
And if some1 of you has the time, please try to install the latest 
ncurses and latest ruby on windows vista and then tell me the whole step 
by step operation because i am now out of ideas.

I will try to get it working on linux abit later, but right now i got no 
internet access there, so i am sticking to windows vista.(university 
internet certificates are complicated)

thanks again

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