# RubyNodes gems and setup.rb failing

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubynodes-gems-and-setup-rb-failing/90334>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [March 27, 2007, 10:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubynodes-gems-and-setup-rb-failing/90334 "2007-03-27T22:41:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![soroe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@soroe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/soroe)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 10:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubynodes-gems-and-setup-rb-failing/90334/1 "2007-03-27T22:41:00Z")

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Hey Guys,

Anyone have success installing the rubynode package. I’ve tried both the  
gem install and the setup.rb without any success. The messages returned  
by each method are shown below. Any hints would be greatly appreciated.

C:\ruby\>gem install rubynode  
Building native extensions. This could take a while…

ERROR: While executing gem … (RuntimeError)  
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.  
Gem files will remain installed in  
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rubynode-0.1.2 for inspection.

Results logged to  
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rubynode-0.1.2/ext/rubynode\_ext/gem\_make.out

\*\*\* I checked the gem\_make.out file for clues but it was empty.

C:\tmp\rubynode-0.1.2\>ruby setup.rb  
—\> lib  
\<— lib  
—\> ext  
—\> ext/rubynode\_ext  
c:/ruby/bin/ruby.exe C:/tmp/rubynode-0.1.2/ext/rubynode\_ext/ex  
tconf.rb  
creating Makefile  
—\> ext/rubynode\_ext/ruby\_src  
—\> ext/rubynode\_ext/ruby\_src/1.8.4\_2005-12-24  
\<— ext/rubynode\_ext/ruby\_src/1.8.4\_2005-12-24  
—\> ext/rubynode\_ext/ruby\_src/1.8.5\_2006-08-25  
\<— ext/rubynode\_ext/ruby\_src/1.8.5\_2006-08-25  
—\> ext/rubynode\_ext/ruby\_src/1.8.5\_2006-12-04  
\<— ext/rubynode\_ext/ruby\_src/1.8.5\_2006-12-04  
—\> ext/rubynode\_ext/ruby\_src/1.8.5\_2006-12-25  
\<— ext/rubynode\_ext/ruby\_src/1.8.5\_2006-12-25  
\<— ext/rubynode\_ext/ruby\_src  
\<— ext/rubynode\_ext  
\<— ext  
—\> lib  
\<— lib  
—\> ext  
—\> ext/rubynode\_ext  
nmake  
setup.rb:655:in `command': system("nmake") failed (RuntimeError) from setup.rb:664:in`make’  
from setup.rb:1258:in `setup_dir_ext' from setup.rb:1532:in` **send** ’  
from setup.rb:1532:in `traverse' from setup.rb:1549:in`dive\_into’  
from setup.rb:1530:in `traverse' from setup.rb:1534:in`traverse’  
from setup.rb:1533:in `each' ... 7 levels... from setup.rb:996:in`exec\_setup’  
from setup.rb:813:in `invoke' from setup.rb:773:in`invoke’  
from setup.rb:1578

So I’m guessing my issue is I need to install a ‘nmake’ program for XP  
…?

Sonny.

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**Author:** ![soroe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@soroe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/soroe)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 4:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubynodes-gems-and-setup-rb-failing/90334/2 "2007-03-28T04:52:50Z")

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On Mar 27, 2007, at 13:41, Sonny C. wrote:

> —\> ext/rubynode\_ext  
> nmake  
> setup.rb:655:in `command’: system(“nmake”) failed (RuntimeError)
> 
> So I’m guessing my issue is I need to install a ‘nmake’ program for XP  
> …?

You need a compiler (and its environment) to compile and install  
binary gems.