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Good day. I have a problem installing the gem "showoff". For some reason it can't install. The error message is as follows:


C:\Ruby>gem install showoff Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing showoff: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

C:/Ruby/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb checking for srand()... no checking for srandom()... no checking for random()... no checking for rand()... no checking for bzero() in string.h,strings.h... no checking for strcasecmp()... no checking for stricmp()... no This extension requires either strcasecmp() or stricmp() * 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

Gem files will remain installed in C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bluecloth-2.0. 9 for inspection. Results logged to C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bluecloth-2.0.9/ext/gem_make.out


I was planning on creating a presentation and pushing it to heroku. The only problem is that I can't do anything without installing the gem first. I'm using Ruby 1.8.6. I've pushed to heroku before. Any help would be much appreciated.

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