# Curb installation problem on WinXp. Please Help

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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [June 7, 2007, 5:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/curb-installation-problem-on-winxp-please-help/106213 "2007-06-07T17:00:48Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 7, 2007, 5:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/curb-installation-problem-on-winxp-please-help/106213/1 "2007-06-07T17:00:48Z")

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Hello all,

I am a new commer in the world of ruby. I have interest on web scraping.  
So I download curb and try to install it on my winxp pc. but it give me  
the following error:

* * *

C:\>gem install curb

Need to update 1 gems from [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org)  
.  
complete  
Building native extensions. This could take a while…  
\*\*\* extconf.rb failed \*\*\*  
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of  
necessary libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more  
details. You may need configuration options.

Provided configuration options:  
–with-opt-dir  
–without-opt-dir  
–with-opt-include  
–without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include  
–with-opt-lib  
–without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib  
–with-make-prog  
–srcdir=.  
–curdir  
–ruby=c:/ruby/bin/ruby  
–with-curl-dir  
–without-curl-dir  
–with-curl-include  
–without-curl-include=${curl-dir}/include  
–with-curl-lib  
–without-curl-lib=${curl-dir}/lib  
–with-curllib  
–without-curllib

ERROR: While executing gem … (RuntimeError)  
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.  
Gem files will remain installed in  
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/curb-0.1.2 for  
inspection.

## Results logged to c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/curb-0.1.2/ext/gem\_make.out

Is there any one who help me on this issu?

Regards,  
Shuvo.