On Nov 4, 5:49 am, "Luis Lavena" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 8:46 AM, MarkMT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Having been unable to get merb running with datamapper/mysql on cygwin > > I have installed ubuntu on my laptop (using wubi - very cool!) and I'm > > now trying to install merb. However this is what I'm seeing - > > > ---- > > $ sudo gem install merb > > Building native extensions. This could take a while... > > ERROR: Error installing merb: > > ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. > > > /usr/bin/ruby1.8 extconf.rb install merb > > checking forsqlite3.h... no > > *** extconf.rb failed *** > > Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of > > necessary libraries and/or headers. > > ---- > > > I have installed sqlite3 and libsqlite3-ruby1.8 using aptitude. What > > else am I missing? > > You need the development headers for that library: > > sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev > > that is part of do_sqlite3 adapter which is part of datamapper. >
Works! Thanks Luis. And apologies for not doing a complete search before posting here. In the meantime I found this, which has the same answer - http://groups.google.com/group/merb/msg/5954850d1d171161 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "merb" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/merb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
