# I need some help building ruby 1.8.6 with mingw **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [September 27, 2007, 9:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/i-need-some-help-building-ruby-1-8-6-with-mingw/115718 "2007-09-27T21:56:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 9:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/i-need-some-help-building-ruby-1-8-6-with-mingw/115718/1 "2007-09-27T21:56:00Z")
Hi all, I’m building the most recent ruby 1.8.6 stable snapshot (build level 5000) with mingw32. Everything’s fine, it builds without an error, but the socket extension is not built. Not even if I manually add the right switch to ./configure. Upon checking the log in the ext/sock folder, I found that it somehow does not find windows.h and winsock.h, though those are both in the include path. If I try to compile a simple c program wich includes \, it builds fine. What could be the problem? Thank you in advance, Ochronus, A fellow rubyist 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 12:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/i-need-some-help-building-ruby-1-8-6-with-mingw/115718/2 "2007-09-28T12:05:57Z")
On szept. 27, 21:53, “removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > What could be the problem? > > Thank you in advance, > Ochronus, > A fellow rubyist 🙂 Solved 🙂 It seems I had a nonstandard mingw installation, now, after reinstalling and fixing some minor annoyances, it works like a charm.