Installing Hpricot on Ruby 1.9.1 on Windows

Marcus picture Marcus · Nov 11, 2009 · Viewed 9.7k times · Source

I am trying to install hpricot using the command:

>gem install hpricot -v 0.8.2
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing hpricot:
    ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

C:/Ruby19/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb checking for stdio.h... * 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:/Ruby19/bin/ruby C:/Ruby19/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:362:in try_do': The complier failed to generate an executable file. (RuntimeError) You have to install development tools first. from C:/Ruby19/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:431:intry_cpp' from C:/Ruby19/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:809:in block in have_header' from C:/Ruby19/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:668:inblock in checking_for' from C:/Ruby19/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:274:in block (2 levels) in postpone' from C:/Ruby19/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:248:inopen' from C:/Ruby19/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:274:in block in postpone' from C:/Ruby19/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:248:inopen' from C:/Ruby19/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:270:in postpone' from C:/Ruby19/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:667:inchecking_for' from C:/Ruby19/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:808:in have_header' from extconf.rb:2:in'

Gem files will remain installed in C:/Ruby19/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/hpricot-0.8.2 for inspection. Results logged to C:/Ruby19/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/hpricot-0.8.2/ext/fast_xs/gem_make.out

it mentions I need to install "development tools" but I have no idea what that refers to. Any suggestions?

Answer

freek picture freek · Feb 12, 2010

Try:

gem install hpricot --platform=mswin32