Beginner help: Problem installing sqlite3 on Windows XP

Ruby
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Hi Everyone,

I am new to Ruby, and i keep getting stuck in the same place getting
started.

I hope someone is able to help me. I am trying to install sqlite3 and
have been following several tutorials, and it all looke very simple, but
i keep running in to this problem.

I have installed ruby and gem.

C:>ruby -v
ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [i386-mswin32]

C:>gem --version
1.2.0

I have placed sqlite3.dll, sqlite3.def, sqlite3.exe in my c:\ruby\bin

I keep getting the following error:

C:>gem install sqlite3-ruby
Building native extensions. This could take a while…
ERROR: Error installing sqlite3-ruby:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

c:/ruby/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb install sqlite3-ruby
checking for fdatasync() in rt.lib… no
checking for sqlite3.h… no

nmake
‘nmake’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

Gem files will remain installed in
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sqlite3-ruby-1
.2.4 for inspection.
Results logged to
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sqlite3-ruby-1.2.4/ext/sqlite3_
api/gem_make.out

Does anyone have an idea what is wrong?

Thanks for your help in advance.

Kind regards,

Kasper

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You could try installing nmake , and run it again . You can find nmake
here :

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On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 7:13 AM, Kasper Frederiksen
[email protected]wrote:

nmake

–
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

try the sqlite3-ruby gem

–
“Hey brother Christian with your high and mighty errand, Your actions
speak
so loud, I can’t hear a word you’re saying.”

-Greg Graffin (Bad Religion)

4

Lex W. wrote:

You could try installing nmake , and run it again . You can find nmake
here :
Microsoft Support

I tried to download nmake and placed NMAKE.EXE & NMAKE.ERR in the
c:\ruby\bin directory.

This is the result:

C:>gem install sqlite3-ruby
Building native extensions. This could take a while…
ERROR: Error installing sqlite3-ruby:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

c:/ruby/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb install sqlite3-ruby
checking for fdatasync() in rt.lib… no
checking for sqlite3.h… no

nmake

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 1.50
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-94. All rights reserved.

NMAKE : fatal error U1073: don’t know how to make ‘ruby.h’
Stop.

Gem files will remain installed in
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sqlite3-ruby-1
.2.4 for inspection.
Results logged to
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sqlite3-ruby-1.2.4/ext/sqlite3_
api/gem_make.out

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try the sqlite3-ruby gem

–

Sorry i am new to this. What do you mean by this? thanks for your help

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On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 7:54 AM, Kasper Frederiksen
[email protected]wrote:

try the sqlite3-ruby gem

–

Sorry i am new to this. What do you mean by this? thanks for your help

Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

gem install sqlite3-ruby rather than sqlite. sqlite3-ruby works great
for
me in Windows XP.

–
“Hey brother Christian with your high and mighty errand, Your actions
speak
so loud, I can’t hear a word you’re saying.”

-Greg Graffin (Bad Religion)

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From what I can tell sqlite3-ruby VERSION 1.2.4 does not have an mswin32
gem. To get this to install (with out a lot of C comp) I did this
gem install --version 1.2.3 sqlite3-ruby

version 1.2.3 has a mswin32 gem and installed the correct mswin32
version.

8

This thread explains what is going on for you. I use the mswin32
version and have no problems on XP. Sound like you went with the ruby
version and it borked on the compilation step because of missing
tools.

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_thread/thread/9d5c9ee6167dace4

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On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Jim C. [email protected]
wrote:

From what I can tell sqlite3-ruby VERSION 1.2.4 does not have an mswin32
gem. To get this to install (with out a lot of C comp) I did this
gem install --version 1.2.3 sqlite3-ruby

version 1.2.3 has a mswin32 gem and installed the correct mswin32
version.

Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Good to know, I guess I haven’t installed it in a while.

–
“Hey brother Christian with your high and mighty errand, Your actions
speak
so loud, I can’t hear a word you’re saying.”

-Greg Graffin (Bad Religion)

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Jim C. wrote:

From what I can tell sqlite3-ruby VERSION 1.2.4 does not have an mswin32
gem. To get this to install (with out a lot of C comp) I did this
gem install --version 1.2.3 sqlite3-ruby

version 1.2.3 has a mswin32 gem and installed the correct mswin32
version.

Anyone know when and/or if 1.2.4 will have a mswin32 gem built? Not
having the current version causes a ‘gem update’ command to fail when it
gets to trying to update sqlite3-ruby. Is there a way to have gem update
skip a gem, or continue to the next one if needed, instead of failing
completely?

Thanks.

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Jim C. wrote:

From what I can tell sqlite3-ruby VERSION 1.2.4 does not have an mswin32
gem. To get this to install (with out a lot of C comp) I did this
gem install --version 1.2.3 sqlite3-ruby

Using version 1.2.3 fixed the problem. Thanks to all of your for trying
to help.