cuke4nuke install issues

Question

Anyone else having trouble installing cuke4nuke via gem install cuke4nuke?

I'm getting the following error and can't figure out what to do to solve it:

Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing cuke4nuke:
        ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

C:/Ruby/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb
checking for strncpy_s()... no
creating Makefile

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

I'm running:

Windows 7 32-bit box Ruby 1.8.6 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 287) [i386-mswin32]
RubyGems 1.3.5
edit I also installed the RubyInstaller's devkit

I have the following gems installed:

actionmailer (2.3.5)
actionpack (2.3.5)
activerecord (2.3.5)
activeresource (2.3.5)
activesupport (2.3.5)
builder (2.1.2)
cucumber (0.6.2, 0.5.0, 0.4.4)
diff-lcs (1.1.2)
fxri (0.3.6)
fxruby (1.6.16)
hpricot (0.6.164)
json (1.2.0)
json_pure (1.2.0)
log4r (1.0.5)
polyglot (0.2.9)
ptools (1.1.6)
rack (1.0.1)
rails (2.3.5)
rake (0.8.7, 0.8.1)
ruby-opengl (0.60.0)
term-ansicolor (1.0.4)
test-unit (2.0.1)
treetop (1.4.3, 1.4.2)
win32-api (1.2.1, 1.2.0)
win32-clipboard (0.4.4)
win32-dir (0.3.2)
win32-eventlog (0.5.0)
win32-file (0.5.5)
win32-file-stat (1.3.1)
win32-process (0.5.9)
win32-sapi (0.1.4)
win32-sound (0.4.1)
win32console (1.2.0)
windows-api (0.2.4)
windows-pr (0.9.3)

Answer 1

You didn't follow the installation instructions.

The installation instructions say to use the MinGW version of MRI, but you are using the MSVC version. Also, you have to install a C compiler and C build environment, again as per the installation instructions. If you use the MinGW version, you can use the Devkit provided by the RubyInstaller authors, if you use the MSVC version, you need to install the same compiler that was used to compile MRI: Microsoft Visual C 6.0 (which is no longer available and hasn't been for years).