# Error installing radiant in windows XP sp3

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-installing-radiant-in-windows-xp-sp3/187368>\
**Category:** Radiant CMS\
**Created:** [April 22, 2010, 7:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-installing-radiant-in-windows-xp-sp3/187368 "2010-04-22T07:12:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![kamz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/77aa72/32.png) [@kamz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kamz)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 7:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-installing-radiant-in-windows-xp-sp3/187368/1 "2010-04-22T07:12:08Z")

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Hello everyone. I am having trouble getting the Radaint CMS up and  
running in my Windows XP installation. I have rails 2.3.5 running.I am  
posting the error below . I am also posting a list of all the gems that  
i have currently installed in my system. Kindly have a look :

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This is the error I get when trying to install Radiant :

C:\Documents and Settings\user\>gem install radiant  
Building native extensions. This could take a while…  
ERROR: Error installing radiant:  
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

C:/Ruby/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb  
creating Makefile

make  
‘make’ 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/RedCloth-4.2.3  
for inspection.  
Results logged to  
C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/RedCloth-4.2.3/ext/redcloth\_sca  
n/gem\_make.out

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And the list of the installed gems are :

C:\Documents and Settings\user\>gem list

\*\*\* LOCAL GEMS \*\*\*

actionmailer (2.3.5)  
actionpack (2.3.5)  
activerecord (2.3.5)  
activeresource (2.3.5)  
activesupport (2.3.5)  
mysql (2.8.1)  
rack (1.1.0, 1.0.1)  
rails (2.3.5)  
rake (0.8.7)  
rubygems-update (1.3.6)

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Any help in this regard is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. :-\>

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**Author:** ![kamz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/77aa72/32.png) [@kamz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kamz)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 8:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-installing-radiant-in-windows-xp-sp3/187368/2 "2010-05-29T08:00:39Z")

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Hi,

Check your proxy settings? If so you might need to configure HTTP\_PROXY.  
Else try downloading from git.

For features of Radiant visit [www.railspassion.com/rails/cms/radiant/](http://www.railspassion.com/rails/cms/radiant/)

Regards,  
Prasanna CS

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**Author:** ![kamz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/77aa72/32.png) [@kamz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kamz)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2010, 7:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-installing-radiant-in-windows-xp-sp3/187368/3 "2010-05-31T07:06:58Z")

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Prasanna CS wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Check your proxy settings? If so you might need to configure HTTP\_PROXY.  
> Else try downloading from git.
> 
> For features of Radiant visit [www.railspassion.com/rails/cms/radiant/](http://www.railspassion.com/rails/cms/radiant/)
> 
> Regards,  
> Prasanna CS

Thanks Prasanna for the reply.The sad news is that I don’t know how to  
check my proxy settings(I could google it but I wouldn’t know what or  
what not to look for in the settings !).If you could be a little more  
detailed about how I should go about it then it would be so much better  
for me. Thanking you again. Looking for a swift reply.