Error installing FeedZirra

Question

Hi, I am new to Ruby on Rails. I am excited about Feed parsing but when I install FeedZirra I am getting this error.

I use Windows 7 and Ruby 1.8.7.

Please help. Thanks in advance.

C:\Ruby187>gem sources -a http://gems.github.com
http://gems.github.com added to sources

C:\Ruby187>gem install pauldix-feedzirra
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing pauldix-feedzirra:
        ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

C:/Ruby187/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb
checking for curl-config... no
checking for main() in -lcurl... no
*** 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
        --without-make-prog
        --srcdir=.
        --curdir
        --ruby=C:/Ruby187/bin/ruby
        --with-curl-dir
        --without-curl-dir
        --with-curl-include
        --without-curl-include=${curl-dir}/include
        --with-curl-lib
        --without-curl-lib=${curl-dir}/lib
        --with-curllib
        --without-curllib
extconf.rb:12:   Can't find libcurl or curl/curl.h (RuntimeError)

  Try passing --with-curl-dir or --with-curl-lib and --with-curl-include
  options to extconf.


Gem files will remain installed in C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/taf2-curb-0
.5.4.0 for inspection.
Results logged to C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/taf2-curb-0.5.4.0/ext/gem_ma
ke.out

Answer 1

You need to install libcurl for the curb gem, which your app depends on somewhere. You can get it here, but you're on your own as far as installation goes. I'm not a windows user, sorry.