From: "Aaron U." Date: 2012-09-02T11:27:44+09:00 Subject: Re: regarding devkit version Just in case this is helpful to anyone else, I came across this post and had the exact same problem only I was already using version 4.5.2 of the devkit so this post didn't really help me much. I felt like I had tried everything, and I was mainly executing out of PowerShell, so as a hail mary I switched over to command and low and behold right before execution ended in the error reported in this post I got a Windows error popup saying: as.exe - Entry Point Not Found The procedure entry point libiconv_set_relocation_prefix could not be located in the dynamic link library libiconv-2.dll I started searching around for that error and found an obscure post on the Harbor Google Group talking about problems with libiconv-2.dll (https://groups.google.com/d/msg/harbour-devel/sM7uXpWaftk/Y7mc3OKoEmsJ). In the very last post one of the forum helpers told the person to check for other copies of the libiconv-2.dll file, so I decided to follow that. After searching my entire disk, I found that I had 4 libiconv-2.dll files: 1 in C:\DevKit\mingw\bin 1 in C:\DevKit\mingw\libexec\gcc\mingw32\4.5.2 1 in C:\Windows\SysWOW64 1 in C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin At that point I started with the Git DLL and worked my way back to the Windows one and renamed them to .bak. Sure enough after renaming the libiconv-2.dll in C:\Windows\SysWOW64 I was able to compile rdiscount without a hitch. I don't really see this as much of a permanent solution as I am pretty sure that, that dll is needed by Windows to run 32-bit programs on 64-bit platforms, but I was able to use renaming it as a workaround so that I could install the few gems that I really cared about before renaming it back the way it was so I didn't end up with Windows problems down the line. Anyway, hopefully this helps someone else out there! It took a long time to track down. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.