Mongrel users - Mar 2006 - Installing Ruby

I just attempted to install Mongrel on Windows. I''m not going to run it
as a service, so I thought
I''d select the ruby flavor (option 1). See error message below.

Q: Is the ruby flavor not supported on Windows? If so, it would be useful to
update the website
with this info.

Thanks,
Mike.

K:\rails\apps\helloworld>gem install mongrel
Attempting local installation of ''mongrel''
Local gem file not found: mongrel*.gem
Attempting remote installation of ''mongrel''
Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
Select which gem to install for your platform (i386-mswin32)
 1. mongrel 0.3.11 (ruby)
 2. mongrel 0.3.11 (mswin32)
 3. mongrel 0.3.10.1 (ruby)
 4. mongrel 0.3.10 (ruby)
 5. mongrel 0.3.9 (ruby)
 6. mongrel 0.3.8 (mswin32)
 7. mongrel 0.3.8 (ruby)
 8. mongrel 0.3.7.1 (mswin32)
 9. mongrel 0.3.7.1 (ruby)
 10. mongrel 0.3.7 (ruby)
 11. mongrel 0.3.6 (mswin32)
 12. mongrel 0.3.6 (ruby)
 13. mongrel 0.3.5 (ruby)
 14. mongrel 0.3.5 (mswin32)
 15. mongrel 0.3.4 (mswin32)
 16. mongrel 0.3.4 (ruby)
 17. mongrel 0.3.3 (ruby)
 18. mongrel 0.3.2 (ruby)
 19. mongrel 0.3.1 (ruby)
 20. mongrel 0.3 (ruby)
 21. mongrel 0.2.2 (ruby)
 22. mongrel 0.2.1 (ruby)
 23. mongrel 0.2.0 (ruby)
 24. Cancel installation
> 1
Install required dependency daemons? [Yn]
Install required dependency gem_plugin? [Yn]
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Errno::ENOENT)
    No such file or directory - nmake


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> Q: Is the ruby flavor not supported on Windows? If so, it would be useful
to update the website
> with this info.
No, it''s not.  That''s why there is a windows version.

--
Rick Olson
http://techno-weenie.net

On 3/29/06, Mike M <spmikedev at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I just attempted to install Mongrel on Windows. I''m not going to
run it as a service, so I thought
> I''d select the ruby flavor (option 1). See error message below.
>
> Q: Is the ruby flavor not supported on Windows? If so, it would be useful
to update the website
> with this info.
With gems, the convention is that the ruby version is pure source code
which in some cases means you need a C compiler to install. For
Windows, where a compiler isn''t available by default, a separate
pre-compiled package is usually made available. Hence the split.

Hope that helps,

Bryan

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