# Can't install hpricot on cygwin **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [November 25, 2007, 9:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-install-hpricot-on-cygwin/121202 "2007-11-25T09:19:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pood](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/3bc359/32.png) [@pood](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pood)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 9:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-install-hpricot-on-cygwin/121202/1 "2007-11-25T09:19:06Z")
I’m trying to run scRUBYt on winXp, but found out it just doesn’t work. So the work around is to use cygwin. I’m trying to install Hpricot I keep on getting this error: ============ ERROR: Error installing hpricot: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. /usr/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb install hpricot checking for main() in -lc…no creating Makefile make gcc -I. -I. -I/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-cygwin -I. -g -02 -c hpricot\_scan.c make gcc: Command not found make: \*\*\* [hpricot.scan.o] 127 =========== I’ve installed FlexMock using gems just fine in cygwin, so what’s wrong? When trying to install Mechanize, I get the exact same message, can’t make hpricot. ---
**Author:** ![pood](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/3bc359/32.png) [@pood](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pood)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 10:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-install-hpricot-on-cygwin/121202/2 "2007-11-25T10:48:07Z")
Feng T. wrote: > ERROR: Error installing hpricot: > > =========== > > I’ve installed FlexMock using gems just fine in cygwin, so what’s wrong? I think the trick is that in FlexMock’s case, you did not have to compile anything - but this doesn’t hold for Hpricot. You need a C compiler. Unfortunately I have no idea how to get that on cygwin, but it shouldn’t be that complicated. Let me know if this solves the problem for you! Cheers, Peter * * * [http://www.rubyrailways.com](http://www.rubyrailways.com) [http://scrubyt.org](http://scrubyt.org) ---
**Author:** ![pood](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/3bc359/32.png) [@pood](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pood)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 10:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-install-hpricot-on-cygwin/121202/3 "2007-11-25T10:53:58Z")
Feng, Check your Cygwin installation and make sure you have gcc installed. It’s under compilers or something like that. It seems that the line that’s throwing the error is make gcc: Command not found I have a somewhat limited experience with Ruby, Windows XP and Cygwin but I remember that a gem installed from the Windows command line will work in Cygwin too (at least it’s present when I issue a `gem list`) ---
**Author:** ![pood](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/3bc359/32.png) [@pood](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pood)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 10:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-install-hpricot-on-cygwin/121202/4 "2007-11-25T10:55:43Z")
Just to be extra clear: if you build it on WinXP you don’t need to install GCC. If you want to built it in Cygwin, you’ll probably need GCC. ---
**Author:** ![pood](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/3bc359/32.png) [@pood](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pood)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 8:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-install-hpricot-on-cygwin/121202/5 "2007-11-25T20:18:05Z")
my Aptana was causing this problem! doing this thru command line, I don’t get this error. ---
**Author:** ![pood](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/3bc359/32.png) [@pood](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pood)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 7:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-install-hpricot-on-cygwin/121202/6 "2007-11-25T19:43:29Z")
that did the trick! but now i get this error: === /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/hpricot-0.6/lib/hpricot/builder.rb:11: warning: `&’ interpreted as argument prefix (eval):2: warning: instance variable @is\_simple\_type not initialized (eval):2: warning: instance variable @is\_simple\_type not initialized (eval):2: warning: instance variable @is\_simple\_type not initialized (eval):2: warning: instance variable @is\_simple\_type not initialized (eval):2: warning: instance variable @is\_pointer\_type not initialized (eval):2: warning: instance variable @is\_pointer\_type not initialized (eval):2: warning: instance variable @is\_pointer\_type not initialized (eval):2: warning: instance variable @is\_simple\_type not initialized (eval):2: warning: instance variable @is\_simple\_type not initialized (eval):2: warning: instance variable @is\_pointer\_type not initialized (eval):2: warning: instance variable @is\_simple\_type not initialized (eval):2: warning: instance variable @is\_simple\_type not initialized /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/pood is insecure (40770). It may not be group or world writable. Exiting. and so on… === when trying to run this: ===require ‘rubygems’ require ‘scrubyt’ google\_data = Scrubyt::Extractor.define do fetch ‘[Google](http://www.google.com/ncr)’ fill\_textfield ‘q’, ‘ruby’ submit result ‘Ruby P.ming Language’ end # google\_data.to\_xml.write($stdout, 1) Scrubyt::ResultDumper.print\_statistics(google\_data) ---
**Author:** ![pood](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/3bc359/32.png) [@pood](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pood)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2007, 1:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-install-hpricot-on-cygwin/121202/7 "2007-11-26T01:01:46Z")
Feng T. wrote: > my Aptana was causing this problem! doing this thru command line, I > don’t get this error. Great! So welcome to scRUBYt!. Please note that there is a #scrubyt channel on [irc.freenode.net](http://irc.freenode.net) now, and I’ll be usually hanging out there, so if you need some quick info on how to go on, be sure to drop in! Cheers, Peter * * * [http://www.rubyrailways.com](http://www.rubyrailways.com) [http://scrubyt.org](http://scrubyt.org)