From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2011-06-17T05:50:28+09:00
Subject: Re: win32-service gem

On Jun 16, 5:39 pm, Daniel Stephens <danny.a.steph...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> [Note:  parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.]
>
> 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.

Seems your version of Ruby was build with Visual Studio, you need
Visual Studio installed to be able to compile gems (which is the case
for win32-api one)

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Luis Lavena