Problem solved. Apparently there's a bug in gem. Running gem update --system
and then re-attempting the libxml-ruby install is successful. -David van Geest Spindance, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: David van Geest [mailto:dav...@spindance.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 10:44 AM To: 'libxml-devel@rubyforge.org' Cc: 'sha...@spindance.com' Subject: RE: [libxml-devel] installing libxml-ruby on Windows Still trying to install libxml-ruby on Windows XP, but I'm switching tactics from the previous post. I've downloaded the libxml-ruby-1.1.3-x86-mswin32-60.gem from rubyforge. Switching to my download directory and running gem install, I get the following trace. Any ideas on what might be going wrong? C:\Files\installers>gem install libxml-ruby-1.1.3-x86-mswin32-60.gem Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: While executing gem ... (RuntimeError) Error instaling libxml-ruby-1.1.3-x86-mswin32-60.gem: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. rake RUBYARCHDIR=c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/libxml-ruby-1.1.3-x86-mswin32-60 /lib RUBYLIBDIR=c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/libxml-ruby-1.1.3-x86-mswin32-60/ lib extension rake aborted! Don't know how to build task 'extension' (See full trace by running task with --trace) (in c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/libxml-ruby-1.1.3-x86-mswin32-60/ext/mingw) Gem files will remain installed in c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/libxml-ruby-1. 1.3-x86-mswin32-60 for inspection. Results logged to c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/libxml-ruby-1.1.3-x86-mswin32-6 0/ext/mingw/gem_make.out Thanks, -David _______________________________________________ libxml-devel mailing list libxml-devel@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/libxml-devel
