On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 08:30:34AM +0900, Shashank Date wrote:
> I downloaded ruby-zlib-0.5.1.tar.gz from RAA but could not
> find any documentation on how to install it on Windows.
> 
> I tried the usual unzip, tar and then:
> 
> C:\install> ruby extconf.rb
> checking for deflateReset() in -lz... no

That error means "I tried to find libz.so or libz.a, and I couldn't". So
ruby-libz is a wrapper around the C library, and you have to install the C
library first.

There is an unofficial Windows DLL version available from
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/zlib.htm
or if you are under cygwin you could compile your own from source from
http://www.gzip.org/zlib

Regards,

Brian.