Ruby-shout installation issue

Ruby
1

Hi,
I am trying to install ruby-shout(used to serve audio to icecast
server) .I have libshout,vorbis and liboggz
But I get this error

ERROR: While executing gem … (RuntimeError)
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
Gem files will remain installed in
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ruby-shout-2.1 fo
r inspection.

Results logged to
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ruby-shout-2.1/ext/gem_make.out

I am not sure what the "failed to build native extension " means.
Any ideas
vivek

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Vivek wrote:

I am trying to install ruby-shout(used to serve audio to icecast
server) .I have libshout,vorbis and liboggz
But I get this error

ERROR: While executing gem … (RuntimeError)
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
Gem files will remain installed in
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ruby-shout-2.1 fo
r inspection.

Results logged to
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ruby-shout-2.1/ext/gem_make.out

I am not sure what the "failed to build native extension " means.

That means the ruby-shout gem comes with some C code. The gem
installation was trying to compile that C code but the compilation
failed for some reason. That reason is shown in that gem_make.out log
file.

Usually the problem is that you’re missing some C libraries. In some
GNU/Linux distros, it’s common that you’re missing a C compiler
altogether because it’s not installed by default.

3

On 12/19/06, Vivek [email protected] wrote:

Results logged to
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ruby-shout-2.1/ext/gem_make.out

I am not sure what the "failed to build native extension " means.
Any ideas
vivek

The gem you are trying to install contains a piece of C code that
needs to be compiled.
You are missing either the compile environment (gcc, make, etc., if on
debian/ubuntu: apt-get install build-essential) or some of the
libraries the extension is dependent on (maybe you need to install the
dev package of the library - with headers and such).
Or you are experiencing another error. See the log for details.

4

Hi

–
I checked it and found that the the message says it cant find libshout
library…but then i installed the libshout library and still gives same
error. however libshout is installed in ./usr/lib and
/usr/local/lib.could this be a problem?

thanks