Rmovie on windows

Can rmovie be installed in a windows environment?
When I run “gem install rmovie”.
It gives the following error:

Building native extensions. This could take a while…
ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError)
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

ruby extconf.rb install rmovie
‘make’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
checking for avcodec_init() in avcodec.lib… no
extconf failed: need avcodec library
*** 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
–srcdir=.
–curdir
–ruby=d:/InstantRails/ruby/bin/ruby
–with-ffmpeg-dir
–without-ffmpeg-dir
–with-ffmpeg-include
–without-ffmpeg-include=${ffmpeg-dir}/include
–with-ffmpeg-lib
–without-ffmpeg-lib=${ffmpeg-dir}/lib
–with-quadrupel-dir
–without-quadrupel-dir
–with-quadrupel-include
–without-quadrupel-include=${quadrupel-dir}/include
–with-quadrupel-lib
–without-quadrupel-lib=${quadrupel-dir}/lib
–with-avcodeclib
–without-avcodeclib

Gem files will remain installed in d:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/
1.8/gems/rmovie-0.5.1 for inspection.
Results logged to d:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/
rmovie-0.5.1/ext/rmovie/gem_make.out

Any help of this is appreciated.
/ Thushan

Thushan wrote:

Can rmovie be installed in a windows environment?

It can, but it’s certainly not trivial. You will need a full developer
toolchain (compiler, make builder) installed and correctly configured,
and then compile against the proper ffmpeg development headers and
libraries.

If you do not have access Visual C++ 6.0 or have sleepless nights over
figuring it out, it may be easier to boot Ubuntu in a virtual image or
set up a Cygwin environment.


Roderick van Domburg

Thanks Roderick.
Added one more item to the list of reasons why I should move to
Ubuntu.

/ Thushan

On Aug 9, 3:49 pm, Roderick van Domburg <rails-mailing-l…@andreas-