Jan 15
Lucky me I got a new computer this week, and of course it comes with Windows 7. So I was installing all my development tools — Ruby and Watir among others — and ran into this problem:
C:\Users\John\Dev>gem install watir
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR: Error installing watir:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
C:/Ruby/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb
checking for strncpy_s()... no
creating Makefile
make
'make' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
Gem files will remain installed in C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/win32-api-1.4.5 for inspection.
Results logged to C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/win32-api-1.4.5/ext/gem_make.out
C:\Users\John\Dev>
Hmm… Thats not good. Looking around on the Internet, I found that there was a devkit Continue reading »
