How do I compile and build the taf2-curb Ruby gem on Windows XP with MinGW?
I tried this, but I'm kinda fishing, unsuccessfully.
C:\Documents and Settings\Me>gem install taf2-curb -- --with-curl-include=C:/curl-7.19.5-devel-mingw32/include --with-curl-dir=C:/curl-7.19.5 --with-curl-lib=C:/curl-7.19.5-devel-mingw32/lib --prefix=C:/MinGW --with-curllib Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org Updating metadata for 73 gems from http://gems.rubyonrails.org ......................................................................... complete Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.github.com Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing taf2-curb: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. C:/Ruby/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb install taf2-curb -- --with-curl-include=C:/curl-7.19.5-devel-mingw32/include --with-cur l-dir=C:/curl-7.19.5 --with-curl-lib=C:/curl-7.19.5-devel-mingw32/lib --prefix=C:/MinGW --with-curllib checking for curl-config... no checking for main() in true.lib... no *** extconf.rb failed *** Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of necessary libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more details. You may need configuration options. Provided configuration options: --with-opt-dir --without-opt-dir --with-opt-include --without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include --with-opt-lib --without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib --with-make-prog --srcdir=. --curdir --ruby=C:/Ruby/bin/ruby --with-curl-dir --with-curl-include=${curl-dir}/include --with-curl-lib=${curl-dir}/lib --with-curllib extconf.rb:9: Can't find libcurl or curl/curl.h (RuntimeError) Try passing --with-curl-dir or --with-curl-lib and --with-curl-include options to extconf. Gem files will remain installed in C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/taf2-curb-0.4.8.0 for inspection. Results logged to C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/taf2-curb-0.4.8.0/ext/gem_make.out C:\Documents and Settings\Me>
I've installed curl-7.19.5 and curl-7.19.5-devel-mingw from this url: http://curl.haxx.se/download.html
Help!
And thanks!