By: Alex le

Alex le — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:59:55 +0000

In your case, I would say the gem installer is still trying to compile some dependencies, most probably the new hpricot gem.

I would make sure that the hpricot library is good. Currently I have
- hpricot 0.6, 0.6.161, 0.6-mswìn, and 0.6-x86-mswin32 installed. You may need to get the latest one hpricot installed, then re-try installing mechanize.

Good luck!

By: Raju

Raju — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:39:59 +0000

Hi! I was having issues installing mechanize on my windows box today, and came across your blog post. I followed your advice, downloaded the mechanize gem to my local dir, fired up a console in _that_ directory and issued your command. I keep getting the same error -

checking for stdio.h… no
*** 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.

Something I am missing?

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