# Spicycode-rcov binaries for windows machine

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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [May 22, 2009, 4:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/spicycode-rcov-binaries-for-windows-machine/168574 "2009-05-22T16:23:57Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 22, 2009, 4:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/spicycode-rcov-binaries-for-windows-machine/168574/1 "2009-05-22T16:23:57Z")

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hi, I am (sadly) PC user and i would like to get spicycode-rcov working  
for cucumber and selenium. I could not compile and install  
spicycode-rcov since i dont have nmake.exe and cl.exe which is only part  
of visula studio.

I tried installing Visual Studio 2008 and that spitted out the below  
error.

“MSC version unmatch”

It looks like some version mismatch between compiler that was required  
and the one that I tried with.

Could someone help me with this please???

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**Author:** ![linewriter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@linewriter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/linewriter)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 4:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/spicycode-rcov-binaries-for-windows-machine/168574/2 "2009-05-27T16:48:22Z")

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Thanks Roderick!!  
Finally i switched to cygwin platform on DOS. though, I am facing some  
issues, i can have them working in few days!! thanks for your answer.

Roderick van Domburg wrote:

> Tamil R. wrote:
> 
> > I tried installing Visual Studio 2008 and that spitted out the below  
> > error.
> > 
> > “MSC version unmatch”
> > 
> > It looks like some version mismatch between compiler that was required  
> > and the one that I tried with.
> 
> Most Ruby binaries on Windows are still compiled with Visual Studio 6.0.
> 
> –  
> Roderick van Domburg  
> [http://www.nedforce.com](http://www.nedforce.com)

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**Author:** ![linewriter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@linewriter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/linewriter)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 8:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/spicycode-rcov-binaries-for-windows-machine/168574/3 "2009-05-27T20:35:53Z")

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On May 27, 11:48 am, Tamil R. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Thanks Roderick!!  
> Finally i switched to cygwin platform on DOS. though, I am facing some  
> issues, i can have them working in few days!! thanks for your answer.

Why you don’t switch to MinGW based Ruby?

That is going to be the replacement for VC6 version:

[http://blog.mmediasys.com/2009/05/05/rubyinstaller-state-of-one-click/](http://blog.mmediasys.com/2009/05/05/rubyinstaller-state-of-one-click/)  
[http://blog.mmediasys.com/2009/05/17/rubyinstaller-updated-packages-and-other-news/](http://blog.mmediasys.com/2009/05/17/rubyinstaller-updated-packages-and-other-news/)

Download 7zip packages, including the developer kit and follow the  
instructions.

Then update rb-readline:

[http://blog.mmediasys.com/2009/05/19/pure-ruby-readline-released-012/](http://blog.mmediasys.com/2009/05/19/pure-ruby-readline-released-012/)

You can get rcov compiled just by gem install 🙂

HTH,

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**Post date:** [May 22, 2009, 5:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/spicycode-rcov-binaries-for-windows-machine/168574/4 "2009-05-22T17:58:54Z")

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Tamil R. wrote:

> I tried installing Visual Studio 2008 and that spitted out the below  
> error.
> 
> “MSC version unmatch”
> 
> It looks like some version mismatch between compiler that was required  
> and the one that I tried with.

Most Ruby binaries on Windows are still compiled with Visual Studio 6.0.

–  
Roderick van Domburg  
[http://www.nedforce.com](http://www.nedforce.com)