Rake-compiler fails on Fedora 13

Ruby
1

Hi there,
I get the following:

[root@li137-46 tenderlove-nokogiri-0e2a3d9]# rake-compiler
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-compiler-0.7.0/lib/rake/
extensioncompiler.rb:28:in mingw_host': No MinGW tools or unknown setup platform? (RuntimeError) from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-compiler-0.7.0/bin/../tasks/bin/ cross-ruby.rake:40 from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-compiler-0.7.0/bin/rake- compiler:21:inload’
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-compiler-0.7.0/bin/rake-
compiler:21
from /usr/bin/rake-compiler:19:in `load’
from /usr/bin/rake-compiler:19

It doesn’t seem to matter if I install it via yum or gem, the same
error occurs.
Help!

Thank you in advance,
Gloria

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extensioncompiler.rb:28:in `mingw_host’: No MinGW tools or unknown
setup platform? (RuntimeError)
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-compiler-0.7.0/bin/…/tasks/bin/

perhaps you are missing a dependency, like one that contains the word
“mingw”…

3

I don’t use MingW on Fedora. I don’t want to cross compile for Windows
at all. I want to build natively, of course.

4

On Jun 23, 7:48 pm, Gloria [email protected] wrote:

I don’t use MingW on Fedora. I don’t want to cross compile for Windows
at all. I want to build natively, of course.

You only need to invoke rake-compiler if you want to setup a ruby for
cross compilation.

You also don’t need to invoke “rake cross compile” when compiling
natively.

5

Thank you. I’m following nokigiri build instructions, and this was not
clear.
Gloria

6

On Jun 23, 11:26 pm, Gloria [email protected] wrote:

Thank you. I’m following nokigiri build instructions, and this was not
clear.
Gloria

Don’t worry, is actually my fault for not having good documentation in
rake-compiler :frowning: