Problems installing Thin on windows 7 x86

Question

I'm having problems getting thin working on my Windows 7 machine (I've already installed eventmachine v0.8.1):

>gem install thin --ignore-dependencies
checking for main() in -lc... no
creating Makefile

make
'make' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Are there not meant to be precompiled binaries available for thin?

Answer 1

Apparently, there aren't any pre-built binaries.

You will need a C compiler installed. If you installed Ruby via the RubyInstaller, that is going to be really easy, if you used the One-Click Installer, it's goint to be a PITA.

See also: problems installing thin on Windows, which contains an answer by the RubyInstaller and One-Click Installer maintainer.

Answer 2

I've worked around the lack of precompiled binaries by installing a compiler:

1. I iInstalled MinGW to C:\MinGW (see here for installation instructions)
2. I then installed MSYS to C:\msys\1.0
3. I then added c:\MinGW\bin and C:\msys\1.0\bin to my %PATAH%
4. Finally I ran gem install thin and amazingly it all worked!

I hope this helps out some other poor Windows ruby developer! :-)