From: Daniel Stephens Date: 2011-06-17T05:39:05+09:00 Subject: win32-service gem --90e6ba2124317a941604a5da42d0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hey all, has anyone been able to use win32-service-0.7.0.gem. when I try to install the gem it fails wanting nmake. I got that setup on my box, and now I get the below. I don't know what it wants. Any ideas? OS - Windows XP Ruby Version - ruby 1.8.6 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 287) [i386-mswin32] C:/Ruby/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb install win32-service checking for strncpy_s()... no creating Makefile nmake Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 1.50 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-94. All rights reserved. C:\Ruby\bin\ruby -e "puts 'EXPORTS', 'Init_api'" > api-i386-mswin32.def cl -nologo -I. -I. -IC:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-mswin32 -I. -MD -Zi -O2b2xg- -G6 -c -Tcwin32/api.c 'cl' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe' : return code '0x1' Stop. Gem files will remain installed in C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/win32-api-1.4.8 for inspection. Results logged to C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/win32-api-1.4.8/ext/gem_make.out --90e6ba2124317a941604a5da42d0--