# Having trouble installing

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/having-trouble-installing/228439>\
**Category:** Ruby-Gnome 2\
**Created:** [April 22, 2013, 9:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/having-trouble-installing/228439 "2013-04-22T21:15:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![jfoxny](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jfoxny](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jfoxny)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 9:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/having-trouble-installing/228439/1 "2013-04-22T21:15:11Z")

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I’ve been trying on and off for a couple days to get visual ruby on my  
computer at work. I’ve been unable to get the gem to install through my  
proxy so I decided to just download the gem from rubygems and got the  
dev kit installed today. Now, I ran the install on the local gem that I  
have and I got to this point:

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:/Ruby/bin/ruby  
–with-pkg-config  
–without-pkg-config  
–with-override-variables  
–without-override-variables

I can post the contents of mkmf.log if need be, but I’m a bit stumped at  
this point. Any help you can provide would be great. Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![jfoxny](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jfoxny](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jfoxny)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 5:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/having-trouble-installing/228439/2 "2013-04-23T05:52:07Z")

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You need more then just the visualruby gem itself. There’s vrlib gem,  
which is the core extension library behind VisualRuby, and the Gtk gems,  
which is the core GUI behind VisualRuby.

Ontop of that, if your running on windows, you need the Gtk Runtime  
Development Environment installed, so that it can compile the Gtk Gems.  
Now, specifically to address the issue that is listed above, without  
seeing the full traceback for the gem install, or the mkmf.log as well  
as  
the gem that it’s failing on, there’s not much I can tell ya, or anyone  
else, without these things. So, if you could provide the name of the  
gem  
that is failing to install, as well as the mkmf.log file, so that we can  
see what is happening, it would be much appreciated.

Mario

On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Jason F.  
\<[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)

> wrote:

> You may  
> –without-make-prog
> 
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**Author:** ![jfoxny](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jfoxny](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jfoxny)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 4:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/having-trouble-installing/228439/3 "2013-04-25T16:01:03Z")

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Hi,

In [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
“[ruby-gnome2-devel-en] Having trouble installing” on Mon, 22 Apr 2013  
21:15:11 +0200,  
“Jason F.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> I’ve been trying on and off for a couple days to get visual ruby on my  
> computer at work. I’ve been unable to get the gem to install through my  
> proxy so I decided to just download the gem from rubygems and got the  
> dev kit installed today. Now, I ran the install on the local gem that I  
> have and I got to this point:

You need to use x86-mingw32 version.

For example, you need to use

[glib2 | RubyGems.org | your community gem host](https://rubygems.org/gems/glib2/versions/1.2.6-x86-mingw32)

rather than

[glib2 | RubyGems.org | your community gem host](https://rubygems.org/gems/glib2/versions/1.2.6)

for glib2 gem.

## Thanks,

kou