libcurl on Windows problems

Question

I am having a hard time installing libcurl ruby bindings gem (curb) on Windows. I have done everything right. I have libcurl directory on the PATH, and then I try two ways of installing the gem

gem install curb

and

rake install EXTCONF_OPTS='--with-curl-dir=B:\curl'

None of them work. They fail with different errors, though, and the second one's error is more constructive:

C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/curb-0.7.7.1/ext/curb_postfield.c:76: undefined reference to 'imp_curl_formadd'

But I don't know what this means.

EDIT: The first error is this complaint

extconf.rb:19: Can't find libcurl or curl/curl.h (RuntimeError)

Even though libcurl dir (B:\curl) is already in the PATH. Here is the full error message--I put it ina gist because the formatting was too weird for this place.

Answer 1

picardo,

I've had trouble installing the curb gem in Windows before. In trying to see how others had solved this I came across a lot of questions and not very many solutions. Having to do it again tonight I decided to document my steps and post the results: http://beginrescue.blogspot.com/2010/07/installing-curb-with-ruby-191-in.html

Sorry for the blogspam, hope this is useful for somebody.

pete