Rubyinstaller devel - Oct 2010 - devkit and compiling non-ruby programs

How do I use the devkit to compile other programs.  For example I downloaded
zeromq and unpacked it.  It uses autotools

cd c:\tools\zeromq

C:\tools2\curl-7.21.1-devel-mingw32\bin\devkitvars.bat


then what do I need to do

bash configure ?


C:\Documents and Settings\Dominic E Sisneros\My
Documents\downloads\ruby\zeromq\zeromq-2.0.9>bash configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
/bin/sh: /c/Documents: No such file or directory
configure: WARNING: `missing'' script is too old or missing
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking how to create a ustar tar archive... none
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl.exe... no
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log'' for more details.

I don''t know all the steps needed

thanks,

dominic
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