On Oct 8, 2007, at 01:48 , Christopher W, wrote:
> (This may not be the right place for RubyGem support. If it is not, a
> pointer to the correct location would be nice.)
>
> I am trying to install the ncurses gem on Windows. I installed Ruby
> 1.8.6 using the 1-click-installer and have gem 0.9.2.
>
> Simply typing "gem install ncurses" resulted in this error:
>> ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
>> ruby extconf.rb install ncurses
>> <SNIP>
>> extconf.rb:35: ncurses header file not found (RuntimeError)
>
> So, I downloaded, extracted, and compiled PDCurses 3.3 from
> http://pdcurses.sourceforge.net/ using MSVC 2005 (version 1400 or
> something).

You'll need MSVC6 to link correctly.  Somebody more familiar with the  
inner workings of Windows compiling will probably pop in and tell you  
why RSN.

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