# Install fcgi-ruby for Apache on Windows Xp **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [March 9, 2010, 11:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/install-fcgi-ruby-for-apache-on-windows-xp/184832 "2010-03-09T11:13:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gorkimaximum](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/e480ec/32.png) [@gorkimaximum](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gorkimaximum)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 11:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/install-fcgi-ruby-for-apache-on-windows-xp/184832/1 "2010-03-09T11:13:26Z")
Hello I need some help with gem fcgi-ruby-0.8.8. I have tried to create from the source rubygem, but in Windows Xp, always i get a lot of errors and the process is aborted. I have tried also to make a direct install of the gem, but always i get an error about the “Ruby Native Extensions”. This is a common error that i have also obtained when i have tried to install other extensions like “Sqlite3” and “Ruby-Postgres”. My question is?. Is there any way to obtain the correct native extensions and compile fcgi and other extensions without obtain this error?. My OS is Windows-Xp SP3 and my Web Server Apache 2.2.14. I have installed also Mingw and Msys, if it were an alternative way to compile the modules i have mentioned. Thank you. Javier A. ---
**Author:** ![gorkimaximum](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/e480ec/32.png) [@gorkimaximum](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gorkimaximum)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 1:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/install-fcgi-ruby-for-apache-on-windows-xp/184832/2 "2010-03-09T13:55:53Z")
On Mar 9, 11:13 am, Javier A. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > My question is?. Is there any way to obtain the correct native > extensions and compile fcgi and other extensions without obtain this > error?. > > My OS is Windows-Xp SP3 and my Web Server Apache 2.2.14. I have > installed also Mingw and Msys, if it were an alternative way to compile > the modules i have mentioned. > > Thank you. Please provide more information about the ruby version you’re using. More precisely, if you’re using downloads from ruby-lang, from old One- Click Installer or the newer RubyInstaller project. “ruby -v” output will be helpful. Also, if you’re using 1.8 or 1.9 versions of Ruby, as it is unknown to me if fcgi-ruby extension is compatible with Ruby 1.9. As you see, that information is required to actually help you. Please include also the gem installation output: gem install xxx – debug -V ---
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Javier A. wrote: > I need some help with gem fcgi-ruby-0.8.8 I believe the gem is called ‘fcgi’: gem install fcgi (at least it was when I installed it a couple of days ago 🙂 To install the C native version will require a C compiler and the fcgi development kit version 2.4.0, available from [www.fastcgi.com](http://www.fastcgi.com), which you’ll also have to compile. However I seem to remember that fcgi has a ‘pure ruby’ implementation too. I don’t know how you’d tell ‘gem install’ not to attempt to build the C version. It may be easier just to install fcgi directly from the source bundle: [http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group\_id=926&release\_id=42628](http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=926&release_id=42628) ---
**Author:** ![gorkimaximum](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/e480ec/32.png) [@gorkimaximum](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gorkimaximum)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 12:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/install-fcgi-ruby-for-apache-on-windows-xp/184832/4 "2010-03-10T12:33:40Z")
Javier A. wrote: > make > make: \*\*\* No rule to make target `/usr/include/ruby-1.9.1/ruby.h', needed by`fcgi.o’. Stop. Then you need _ruby’s_ development header files as well. If this were an Ubuntu box, I’d say install the package ruby1.8-dev or whatever. However I don’t know how you’d do it on Windows. You’d have to find out where your Windows install came from, and whether they offer the header files as a separate package. > Also would be an error in the Makefile, > because of the “/usr/include/ruby-1.9.1”, as my Ruby Directory is > “c:/Ruby19”. It could be a hard-coded assumption, although it should be using rbconfig to find the files where they were built. What happens if you do this in IRB? > > require ‘rbconfig’ > > =\> true > > > Config::CONFIG[‘includedir’] > > =\> “/usr/include” If you see “/usr/include” then the person who built your ruby built it with that as the system header directory. If you can’t work out how to do this (and remember I’m not a Windows user so I can’t help you much), I’d say your best option is to use the pure-ruby fcgi library. This is simply lib/fcgi.rb inside the gem. You can see that it tries to load fcgi.so, and if that fails, just builds the FCGI class from ruby code. ---
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Hi, Thanks for your help. I have downloaded and compiled the development kit fastcgi-2.4.0 , and i have seen that it contains the fcgiapp.h source that i need to compile ruby-fcgi-0.8.9. The problem is that when i try to install (gem install ruby-fcgi-0.8.9 --remote), i get the following error: C:\fcgi\include\>gem install ruby-fcgi --remote Building native extensions. This could take a while… ERROR: Error installing ruby-fcgi: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. C:/Ruby19/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb checking for fcgiapp.h… no checking for fastcgi/fcgiapp.h… no make make: \*\*\* No rule to make target `/usr/include/ruby-1.9.1/ruby.h', needed by `fcgi.o’. Stop. Gem files will remain installed in C:/Ruby19/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/ruby-fcgi-0.8.9 for inspection. Results logged to C:/Ruby19/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/ruby-fcgi-0.8.9/ext/fcgi/gem\_make.out C:\fcgi\include\>gem uninstall ruby-fcgi ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::InstallError) cannot uninstall, check `gem list -d ruby-fcgi` C:\fcgi\include\>gem uninstall ruby-fcgi-0.8.9 ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::InstallError) cannot uninstall, check `gem list -d ruby-fcgi-0.8.9` C:\fcgi\include\> I have set the route to fcgiapp.h in my path environment variables, but the rubygems can’t find it. Also would be an error in the Makefile, because of the “/usr/include/ruby-1.9.1”, as my Ruby Directory is “c:/Ruby19”. Thanks a lot. Javier A… Brian C. wrote: > Javier A. wrote: > > > I need some help with gem fcgi-ruby-0.8.8 > > I believe the gem is called ‘fcgi’: gem install fcgi > (at least it was when I installed it a couple of days ago 🙂 > > To install the C native version will require a C compiler and the fcgi > development kit version 2.4.0, available from [www.fastcgi.com](http://www.fastcgi.com), which > you’ll also have to compile. > > However I seem to remember that fcgi has a ‘pure ruby’ implementation > too. I don’t know how you’d tell ‘gem install’ not to attempt to build > the C version. It may be easier just to install fcgi directly from the > source bundle: > [http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group\_id=926&release\_id=42628](http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=926&release_id=42628) ---
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The execution in IRB was: require ‘rbconfig’ =\> true > > Config::CONFIG[‘includedir’] > > =\> “c:/ruby19/include” But when i try to install gem ruby-fcgi-0.8.9 the Makefile generate a full of errors. Even, is configurated for i486-linux. So i think, it’s no possible do a good configuration for Windows. Only if you hard coded Makefile on hand. Thank you. Brian C. wrote: > Javier A. wrote: > > > make > > make: \*\*\* No rule to make target `/usr/include/ruby-1.9.1/ruby.h', needed by`fcgi.o’. Stop. > > Then you need _ruby’s_ development header files as well. > > If this were an Ubuntu box, I’d say install the package ruby1.8-dev or > whatever. > > However I don’t know how you’d do it on Windows. You’d have to find out > where your Windows install came from, and whether they offer the header > files as a separate package. > > > Also would be an error in the Makefile, > > because of the “/usr/include/ruby-1.9.1”, as my Ruby Directory is > > “c:/Ruby19”. > > It could be a hard-coded assumption, although it should be using > rbconfig to find the files where they were built. What happens if you do > this in IRB? > > > > require ‘rbconfig’ > > > =\> true > > > > > Config::CONFIG[‘includedir’] > > > =\> “/usr/include” > > If you see “/usr/include” then the person who built your ruby built it > with that as the system header directory. > > If you can’t work out how to do this (and remember I’m not a Windows > user so I can’t help you much), I’d say your best option is to use the > pure-ruby fcgi library. This is simply lib/fcgi.rb inside the gem. You > can see that it tries to load fcgi.so, and if that fails, just builds > the FCGI class from ruby code. ---
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Javier A. wrote: > The first problem is that i can’t find the fcgiapp.h or > fastcgi/fcgiapp.h that i think are header files that managed the native > extensions.They are in the include folder of the fastcgi-2.4.0 kit, but > the gem install don’t found them. You could try set CPPFLAGS=-I/path/to/dir set LDFLAGS=-L/path/to/lib If you’re going to do this sort of stuff, I suggest you don’t install using rubygems. Rather, use the setup.rb which comes inside the fcgi source tarball. Googling for “ruby fcgi windows” turns up some interesting stuff, such as [http://www.napcsweb.com/howto/rails/deployment/railsonIISWithApacheFCGI.pdf](http://www.napcsweb.com/howto/rails/deployment/railsonIISWithApacheFCGI.pdf) although it doesn’t address how to get fcgi installed for Windows. I guess they are just using the pure-ruby version. Finally: if you’re installing a 0.8.9 version, that’s someone’s fork. The “official” fcgi is 0.8.8 (the one on [rubyforge.org](http://rubyforge.org) anyway). You could try contacting whoever forked the code for help. ---
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The first problem is that i can’t find the fcgiapp.h or fastcgi/fcgiapp.h that i think are header files that managed the native extensions.They are in the include folder of the fastcgi-2.4.0 kit, but the gem install don’t found them. I have compiled fastcgi-2.4.0, and i have obtained the “cgi-fcgi.exe” and “libfcgi.dll”, but perhaps, i haven’t installed the files correctly and the rubygems install procedure can’t find it.Perhaps this would be the problem. The documentation of fastcgi-2.4.0 says how to compile the source, but not how to set the folders an install these on Windows environment. Thank you. Javier A… Javier A. wrote: > The execution in IRB was: > > require ‘rbconfig’ > =\> true > > > > Config::CONFIG[‘includedir’] > > > =\> “c:/ruby19/include” > > But when i try to install gem ruby-fcgi-0.8.9 the Makefile generate a > full of errors. Even, is configurated for i486-linux. So i think, it’s > no possible do a good configuration for Windows. Only if you hard coded > Makefile on hand. > > Thank you. > > Brian C. wrote: > > > Javier A. wrote: > > > > > make > > > make: \*\*\* No rule to make target `/usr/include/ruby-1.9.1/ruby.h', needed by`fcgi.o’. Stop. > > > > Then you need _ruby’s_ development header files as well. > > > > If this were an Ubuntu box, I’d say install the package ruby1.8-dev or > > whatever. > > > > However I don’t know how you’d do it on Windows. You’d have to find out > > where your Windows install came from, and whether they offer the header > > files as a separate package. > > > > > Also would be an error in the Makefile, > > > because of the “/usr/include/ruby-1.9.1”, as my Ruby Directory is > > > “c:/Ruby19”. > > > > It could be a hard-coded assumption, although it should be using > > rbconfig to find the files where they were built. What happens if you do > > this in IRB? > > > > > > require ‘rbconfig’ > > > > =\> true > > > > > > > Config::CONFIG[‘includedir’] > > > > =\> “/usr/include” > > > > If you see “/usr/include” then the person who built your ruby built it > > with that as the system header directory. > > > > If you can’t work out how to do this (and remember I’m not a Windows > > user so I can’t help you much), I’d say your best option is to use the > > pure-ruby fcgi library. This is simply lib/fcgi.rb inside the gem. You > > can see that it tries to load fcgi.so, and if that fails, just builds > > the FCGI class from ruby code.