curb gem fails to install. I am using following configuration:-
Windows 7
Ruby 2
Rails 4
gem "bundler 1.3.5"
C:\RorProjects>gem install curb
Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing curb: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
C:\Users\abc>gem install curb
Temporarily enhancing PATH to include DevKit...
Building native extensions. This could take a while.....
ERROR: Error installing curb:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
C:/Rubyinstaller200/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:/Rubyinstaller200/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}/
--with-curllib
--without-curllib
extconf.rb:18:in `<main>': 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:/Rubyinstaller200/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/
curb-0.8.4 for inspection.
Results logged to C:/Rubyinstaller200/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/curb-0.8.4/ext/ge
m_make.out
Try installing mingw and run the command within it, I haven'T worked on windows for a while but it used to fix my gem install problems back then :