RedCloth on Windows

[W. Szabo Peter]

Thanks a lot, I tried with Cygwin, but this is a lot easier, and work. Why I had to do the hard way?!
Thanks again,
Problem solved.
Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: redcloth-upwards-bounces at rubyforge.org [mailto:redcloth-upwards-bounces at rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Jon
Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 3:56 AM
To: redcloth-upwards at rubyforge.org
Subject: Re: RedCloth on Windows

> How to Install RedCloth on Windows?
> 
> The usual way fails:
> 
>  >gem install RedCloth
> 
> Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
>
> [...snip...]  
> 
> Any idea what to do?
> 

I don't know what Windows version of Ruby you're using, but I'm able to successfully use RedCloth using the RubyInstaller from http://rubyinstaller.org/ in combination with the MSys/MinGW DevKit DevKit from http://wiki.github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/development-kit

In a nutshell, this combination enables Windows users to compile many of the native C-based extensions that either don't currently offer a mingw32 binary gem or no binary gems period.  FYI, we maintain a list of the status of many of the native C-based gems that work or don't work with the above environment at http://wiki.github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/gem-list

My environment...

C:\Users\Jon\Documents>ruby --version
ruby 1.9.1p378 (2010-01-10 revision 26273) [i386-mingw32]

C:\Users\Jon\Documents>gem --version
1.3.5

C:\Users\Jon\Documents>gem list RedCloth -d

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

RedCloth (4.2.2)
    Author: Jason Garber
    Rubyforge: http://rubyforge.org/projects/redcloth
    Homepage: http://redcloth.org
    Installed at: C:/ruby191/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1

    RedCloth-4.2.2 - Textile parser for Ruby. http://redcloth.org/

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