Ross Bamford wrote: > On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 22:20 +0900, Friedrich Dominicus wrote: >> I tried to contact Mr Hirotaka Matsuyuki,however his email address >> seems to be invalid. If someone knows the proper address would you >> mind to let me know? >> > > I tried to contact him earlier this year, but to no avail - I think the > project has been dormant for quite a while. I posted about it here at > the time. [1] > >> I've tried the libcurl bindings from him in both forms from >> http://www.d1.dion.ne.jp/~matuyuki/ruby.html > > I made some updates to this version to get it to work with Ruby 1.8 and > GCC 4. When I couldn't get any response with the patch, I posted up a > patched copy on my site [2]. IIRC it worked quite well. > > [1] http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/184297 > [2] http://roscopeco.co.uk/code/rbCurl-0.0.2-03.06.tar.gz Hello Mr. Ross Bamford, I am trying to install istall curb by trying this >gem install curb but it show me the following error message: ----------------------------------------- C:\>gem install curb Need to update 1 gems from http://gems.rubyforge.org . complete Building native extensions. This could take a while... *** extconf.rb failed *** Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of necessary libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more details. You may need configuration options. Provided configuration options: --with-opt-dir --without-opt-dir --with-opt-include --without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include --with-opt-lib --without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib --with-make-prog --srcdir=. --curdir --ruby=c:/ruby/bin/ruby --with-curl-dir --without-curl-dir --with-curl-include --without-curl-include=${curl-dir}/include --with-curl-lib --without-curl-lib=${curl-dir}/lib --with-curllib --without-curllib ERROR: While executing gem ... (RuntimeError) ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. Gem files will remain installed in c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/curb-0.1.2 for inspection. Results logged to c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/curb-0.1.2/ext/gem_make.out ----------------------------------------- 1 thing more, I am using windows xp insteed of linus and using ruby 1.8.5-2.1. I am new in ruby. So,if you are kind enough please send me the compleate installation documentation to shuvo.razi / gmail.com.Thank you. Regards, Shuvo. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.