RMagick Install Woes ;_;

[Pierre Pepe]

Running Win7 64 bit

Having troubles installing RMagick. I was following the read me, and I
only got to the part where it tells you to type out "gem install rmagick
--local" and then I get the following error: "ERROR: Could not find a
valid gem 'rmagick' (>= 0) in any repository"

So... basically I'm not sure how to continue from here? I keep reading
that there are ruby header files that I may not have or if I really need
them.

If I do, I'm not sure where or how to get them.

Sorry for my nubness ;_;

I appreciate the help in advance, thanks!

 

[Roger Pack]

the --local is probably what's getting you. Remove it

 

[Pierre Pepe]

I get this if I just type gem install rmagick

C:\Users\Pierre>gem install rmagick
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR: Error installing rmagick:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

C:/Ruby/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| This rmagick gem is for use only on Linux, BSD, OS X, and similar systems |
| that have a gnu or similar toolchain installed. The rmagick-win32 gem is a |
| pre-compiled version of RMagick bundled with ImageMagick for use on |
| Microsoft Windows systems. The rmagick-win32 gem is available on RubyForge.|
| See http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/install-faq.html for more information. |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
*** 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.

Provided configuration options:
--with-opt-dir
--without-opt-dir
--with-opt-include
--without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
--with-opt-lib
--without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
--with-make-prog
--srcdir=.
--curdir
--ruby=C:/Ruby/bin/ruby


Gem files will remain installed in
C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rmagick-2.13.1
for inspection.
Results logged to
C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rmagick-2.13.1/ext/RMagick/gem_
make.out

C:\Users\Pierre>

 

[J. K.]

hi there -

judging by the C:, you're using a windows system... following the
link in the error you received led me here:
http://rubyforge.org/projects/rmagick/
looks like this is the place to download the rmagick gem and installer
for windows...

good luck-

j

 

[Pierre Pepe]

J. K. wrote in post #986614:

hi there -

judging by the C:, you're using a windows system... following the
link in the error you received (
http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/install-faq.html )led me here:
http://rubyforge.org/projects/rmagick/
looks like this is the place to download the rmagick gem and installer
for windows...

good luck-

j

I downloaded and installed that already.

 

[Luis Lavena]

Running Win7 64 bit

Having troubles installing RMagick. I was following the read me, and I
only got to the part where it tells you to type out "gem install rmagick
--local" and then I get the following error: "ERROR:  Could not find a
valid gem 'rmagick' (>= 0) in any repository"

So... basically I'm not sure how to continue from here? I keep reading
that there are ruby header files that I may not have or if I really need
them.

If I do, I'm not sure where or how to get them.

Sorry for my nubness ;_;

I appreciate the help in advance, thanks!

Please see RubyInstaller wiki section, Tutorials:

http://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/wiki/Tutorials

To install RMagick gem you need RMagick development headers and
libraries, which you need to install from ImageMagick installers.