Documentation necessary for Ferret installation...

[dlikhten]

Currently the ferret installation claims that its simple to install just run

gem install ferret

Which is great, except that no pre-requisites section exists. For windows we obviously need visual studio runtime installed. However we also need to know what (if anything) is also necessary for running that install.

error received:

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 9.00.21022.08 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

c:\ruby\bin\ruby -e "puts 'EXPORTS', 'Init_ferret_ext'" > ferret_ext-i3

86-mswin32.def

cl -nologo -I. -Ic:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-mswin32 -Ic:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.

8/i386-mswin32 -I. -MD -Zi -O2b2xg- -G6 -c -Tcanalysis.c cl : Command line warning D9035 : option 'Og-' has been deprecated and will be r emoved in a future release cl : Command line warning D9002 : ignoring unknown option '-G6' analysis.c c:\ruby\lib\ruby\1.8\i386-mswin32\config.h(2) : fatal error C1189: #error : MSC

version unmatch

NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\ VC\BIN\cl.EXE"' : return code '0x2' Stop.

Gem files will remain installed in c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ferret-0.11.6 for inspection. Results logged to c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ferret-0.11.6/ext/gem_make.out

[dbalmain]

You need to install the mswin32 gem. I've copied the 0.11.5 version to the 0.11.6 release since this seemed to be confusing a lot of people. Until the gem becomes available on the gem servers you should just use the 0.11.5 version as it is exactly the same.

[dbalmain]

It has recently come to my attention that although the 0.11.6 win32 gem is available for download from rubyforge, it doesn't seem to be available when you do a gem install on Windows. I'll look into this and leave this ticket open until it is properly resolved.