problem with rubygems in windows

Question

Hi,

I built Ruby 1.9 from scratch in Windows using MinGW, now I am trying to set up the environment and am having great difficulties getting the 'gem' command to work.

First not even 'irb' would work, so i added a bunch of paths to the RUBYLIB environment variable and now that works ok. But whenever i run 'gem' i get this error: http://gist.github.com/291135

Anyone have any idea what i'm doing wrong?

NOTE: i have to use MinGW and compile from scratch as I am intending to build c extensions in windows.

thanks

Answer 1

Hello,

Without having the exact output of the errors you're getting is not simple to determine the root of the failure.

But to help you out, I would recommend you install RubyInstaller package for 1.9 and also install the Development Kit on top of it.

You can get more instructions about this in the website here, and the wiki

Hope this helps.