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Mark

27 Jan, 2010 06:19 PM

I have ruby running on my machine and I'm using git bash as my terminal. I am trying to install the curb gem so I can run my rspec tests. But everytime I try to install the gem I get the following error:

C:/InstantRails/ruby/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb install curb checking for curl-config... no
checking for main() in curl.lib... 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
    --srcdir=.
    --curdir
    --ruby=C:/InstantRails/ruby/bin/ruby
    --with-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:9: 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:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/curb-0.4.4.0 for inspection.
Results logged to C:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/curb-0.4.4.0/ext/gem_make.out

I cannot figure out how to get this to work. I installed libcurb lib but that did not help.

If someone could provide the steps to overcome this issue I would be greatly appreciative.

1. Support Staff 2 Posted by Eric Hodel on 27 Jan, 2010 07:10 PM

   

   This is a forum for help with rubygems itself, not individual gems.

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2. Eric Hodel closed this discussion on 27 Jan, 2010 07:10 PM.

3. Nick Quaranto re-opened this discussion on 27 Jan, 2010 07:17 PM

4. Support Staff 3 Posted by Nick Quaranto on 27 Jan, 2010 07:17 PM

   

   This stackoverflow topic seems to be dealing with the same issue:

   http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1151408/how-do-you-get-libcurl-l...

   If that works out, let us know!

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5. Nick Quaranto closed this discussion on 14 Mar, 2010 04:43 PM.

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