Is there a binary gem for fastthread on windows? gem install fastthread on windows tries to compile with rather unpleasant consequences. I guess fastthread compilation is done with the VC6.0 tools, cause my VS2005 installation crashes and burns: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC>gem install fastthread Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing fastthread: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. c:/dev/ruby/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb install fastthread creating Makefile nmake Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 8.00.50727.762 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. cl -nologo -I. -Ic:/dev/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-mswin32 -Ic:/dev/ruby/lib /ruby/1.8/i386-mswin32 -I. -MD -Zi -O2b2xg- -G6 -c -Tcfastthread.c cl : Command line warning D9035 : option 'Og-' has been deprecated and will be r emoved in a future release cl : Command line warning D9002 : ignoring unknown option '-G6' fastthread.c c:\dev\ruby\lib\ruby\1.8\i386-mswin32\config.h(2) : fatal error C1189: #error : MSC version unmatch NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\BIN\c l.EXE"' : return code '0x2' Stop. Anyone got an idea? Cheers, V.- -- http://www.braveworld.net/riva