Our Windows-based devs all do their Ruby work on Ubuntu and Fedora VMs,
FWIW.

-Mike



On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Justin Coyne <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> If you see something about C-extensions, it's because the library is not
> written in pure Ruby, it is a wrapper around a library written in C.  Your
> system may not have the C compiler or some of the libraries needed to
> compile or link the extension.
>
> Justin Coyne
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Joshua Welker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > I am attempting to write my first small Ruby app, but I am running into
> > major problems just getting off the ground developing in Windows. I
> > downloaded the most recent Ruby 2.0 package from RubyInstaller. Then I
> > installed DevKit so I could use gems. After some fiddling, I was finally
> > able to install some gems.
> >
> >
> >
> > Some.
> >
> >
> >
> > For any given gem I try to install, there’s about a 25% chance that I get
> > this byzantine error:
> >
> >
> >
> > ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
> >
> > […a whole bunch of gibberish about C headers and so forth…]
> >
> >
> >
> > In particular, I am trying to install the Blather XMPP client. I am
> tempted
> > to just give up and develop on Linux, but I am wanting to deploy this
> > script to Windows machines and figure I might run into problems if I
> don’t
> > develop in Windows. I have Googled the heck out of this issue and can’t
> > find anything that is similar to my case (the solutions on the
> > RubyInstaller Github wiki did not work). Do any of you Ruby people know
> why
> > I might be having this error so frequently in my Windows environment?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Josh Welker
> >
> > Information Technology Librarian
> >
> > James C. Kirkpatrick Library
> >
> > University of Central Missouri
> >
> > Warrensburg, MO 64093
> >
> > JCKL 2260
> >
> > 660.543.8022
> >
>