# Rmovie on windows

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmovie-on-windows/111637>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 9, 2007, 12:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmovie-on-windows/111637 "2007-08-09T12:16:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Thushan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@Thushan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Thushan)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2007, 12:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmovie-on-windows/111637/1 "2007-08-09T12:16:35Z")

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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

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**Author:** ![Thushan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@Thushan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Thushan)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2007, 12:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmovie-on-windows/111637/2 "2007-08-09T12:49:48Z")

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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

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**Author:** ![Thushan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@Thushan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Thushan)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2007, 1:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmovie-on-windows/111637/3 "2007-08-09T13:00:44Z")

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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-