On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 4:36 AM, satyajit bhuyan
<satyajitbhuyan@gmail.com> wrote:

> While installing ffi-0.6.2 ,I am facing on problem.
>
> My PC runs on Windows XP.
>
> I have already have gem version 1.3.6 and ruby 1.8.7 <2010 01-10
> patchlevel 249> [i386-mingw32]
>
> but it fails and on command prompt throws this error:
>
>
> Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
> (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\sabhu>d:
>
> D:\>gem install ffi --version 0.6.2
> Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
> ERROR:  Error installing ffi:
>        ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
>

Gems that require compilation require the Development Kit be installed:

http://wiki.github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/development-kit
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