# Having trouble installing viualruby

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/having-trouble-installing-viualruby/225822>\
**Category:** Ruby-Gnome 2\
**Created:** [January 31, 2013, 2:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/having-trouble-installing-viualruby/225822 "2013-01-31T02:30:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![SSkonishi\_takurou\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SSkonishi\_takurou\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/SSkonishi_takurou_S)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 2:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/having-trouble-installing-viualruby/225822/1 "2013-01-31T02:30:34Z")

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When installing VR, I get this message:

ruby 1.9.3p374 (2013-01-15) [i386-mingw32]

C:\Users\Nick\>gem install visualruby  
Temporarily enhancing PATH to include DevKit…  
Building native extensions. This could take a while…  
ERROR: Error installing visualruby:  
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

```
    C:/Ruby193/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb

```

checking for -Wall option to compiler… yes  
checking for -Waggregate-return option to compiler… yes  
checking for -Wcast-align option to compiler… yes  
checking for -Wextra option to compiler… yes  
checking for -Wformat=2 option to compiler… yes  
checking for -Winit-self option to compiler… yes  
checking for -Wlarger-than-65500 option to compiler… yes  
checking for -Wmissing-declarations option to compiler… yes  
checking for -Wmissing-format-attribute option to compiler… yes  
checking for -Wmissing-include-dirs option to compiler… yes  
checking for -Wmissing-noreturn option to compiler… yes  
checking for -Wmissing-prototypes option to compiler… yes  
checking for -Wnested-externs option to compiler… yes  
checking for -Wold-style-definition option to compiler… yes  
checking for -Wpacked option to compiler… yes  
checking for -Wp,-D\_FORTIFY\_SOURCE=2 option to compiler… yes  
checking for -Wpointer-arith option to compiler… yes  
checking for -Wswitch-default option to compiler… yes  
checking for -Wswitch-enum option to compiler… yes  
checking for -Wundef option to compiler… yes  
checking for -Wunsafe-loop-optimizations option to compiler… yes  
checking for -Wwrite-strings option to compiler… yes  
checking for rb\_define\_alloc\_func() in ruby.h… yes  
checking for rb\_block\_proc() in ruby.h… yes  
checking for new allocation framework… yes  
checking for attribute assignment… no  
checking for cairo… yes  
checking for rb\_cairo.h… no  
checking for Win32 OS… yes  
checking for gtksourceview-2.0… no  
checking for brew… no  
checking for port… no  
\*\*\* 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  
–without-make-prog  
–srcdir=.  
–curdir  
–ruby=C:/Ruby193/bin/ruby  
–with-pkg-config  
–without-pkg-config  
–with-override-variables  
–without-override-variables

Gem files will remain installed in  
C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/gtksource  
view2-1.2.1 for inspection.  
Results logged to  
C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/gtksourceview2-1.2.1/ext/g  
tksourceview2/gem\_make.out

C:\Users\Nick\>gem install visualruby

If someone could please help me, It would be much appreciated!

Thanks,  
Nick

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**Author:** ![shadowplay](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@shadowplay](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/shadowplay)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 2:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/having-trouble-installing-viualruby/225822/2 "2013-01-31T02:51:57Z")

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Hi,

Ruby-GNOME2 1.2.1 gems for Windows are not uploaded yet because  
[rubygems.org](http://rubygems.org) is under maintenance.

I’ll upload them when [rubygems.org](http://rubygems.org) is back.

## Thanks,

kou

2013/1/31 Nicholas N. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid):

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**Author:** ![shadowplay](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@shadowplay](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/shadowplay)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 3:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/having-trouble-installing-viualruby/225822/3 "2013-01-31T03:14:22Z")

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Thank you, I appreciate it…

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**Author:** ![shadowplay](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@shadowplay](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/shadowplay)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2013, 11:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/having-trouble-installing-viualruby/225822/4 "2013-02-02T11:39:32Z")

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Hi,

I’ve uploaded Ruby-GNOME2 gems for Windows to [rubygems.org](http://rubygems.org). 🙂

## Thanks,

kou

2013/1/31 Nicholas N. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid):