If you try install Ferret on Win and if you dont have MS compiler && nmake then native extension compilation will fail.<br>But Ferret will be installed anyway and work as pure Ruby version.<br><br>If you want that Fetter use native extension that much faster than pure Ruby you need to download file from wiki and put it to "lib" dir where Ferret installed. For me this dir is "C:\Program Files\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\ferret-
0.3.0\lib"<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/2/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Carl Youngblood</b> <<a href="mailto:carl@youngbloods.org">carl@youngbloods.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I'm a little confused by this. The lib directory of Ferret won't<br>exist until you have already installed it, and by that time the<br>compiling attempt has already taken place.<br><br>On 12/2/05, David Balmain <<a href="mailto:dbalmain.ml@gmail.com">
dbalmain.ml@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Also, it should now compile with the MSVC compiler on windows thanks<br>> to a patch from Anatol Pomozov. You can download it from here;<br>><br>> <a href="http://ferret.davebalmain.com/trac/attachment/wiki/Windows/ferret_ext.so?format=raw">
http://ferret.davebalmain.com/trac/attachment/wiki/Windows/ferret_ext.so?format=raw</a><br>><br>> And place it in the lib directory of your Ferret distribution.<br><br>_______________________________________________
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>anatol (<a href="http://pomozov.info">http://pomozov.info</a>)