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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 > > >