I'm getting the below error while installing 'redcarpet' gem. It got installed without issue on my friends machine though. (I want to install this to run yard)
Ruby version: 1.9.3
cmd output:
D:\Learning\Common_POM_FW\SampleProjects>yard
[error]: Missing 'redcarpet' gem for Markdown formatting. Install it with `gem install redcarpet`
D:\Learning\Common_POM_FW\SampleProjects>gem install redcarpet
Temporarily enhancing PATH to include DevKit...
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR: Error installing redcarpet:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
C:/Ruby193/bin/ruby.exe -r ./siteconf20141009-6544-978w4t.rb extconf.rb
creating Makefile
make clean
Makefile:165: *** target pattern contains no `%'. Stop.
make
Makefile:165: *** target pattern contains no `%'. Stop.
make failed, exit code 2
Gem files will remain installed in C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/redcarpet-3.1.2 for inspectio
n.
Results logged to C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/extensions/x86-mingw32/1.9.1/redcarpet-3.1.2/gem_ma
ke.out
UPDATE: With the devkit installation instructions provided at https://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/wiki/Development-Kit When I test the installation with json gem it fails there too :(
I went through the link for troubleshoot in github Native gem extension Error and followed the instructions to solve, Yet the problem persists..
I added the two paths to Env var C:\\ruby_devkit\\bin;C:\\ruby_devkit\\mingw\\bin; This removes the line Temporarily enhancing PATH to include DevKit... from appearing on cmd
Finally after much research I found the culprit was the RubyGems version incompatibility with native extension gems!!!
I had ruby gems ver 2.4.1 but seems like >2.4.0 has these issues
gem update --system 2.3.0 did the trick for me :)