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I've been trying to install this for a few days now with no success. Looking for help, I've been through this site a half dozen times to try and resolve the issue but I'm not having any luck.

c:\Ruby193\DevKit>gem install caldecott --platform=ruby
Temporarily enhancing PATH to include DevKit...
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
    ERROR:  Error installing caldecott:
    ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

C:/Ruby193/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb
creating Makefile

make
'make' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.


Gem files will remain installed in C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/escape_ut
ils-0.3.2 for inspection.
Results logged to C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/escape_utils-0.3.2/ext/esc
ape_utils/gem_make.out

I've attempted to follow the instructions on this post
-Make Is Not Recognized as an internal or exernal command

By Doing this:

c:\Ruby193>set make=mingw32-make

I unfortunately still get:

c:\Ruby193>gem install caldecott --platform=ruby
Temporarily enhancing PATH to include DevKit...
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
    ERROR:  Error installing caldecott:
    ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

C:/Ruby193/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb
creating Makefile

mingw32-make
'mingw32-make' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.


Gem files will remain installed in C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/escape_ut
ils-0.3.2 for inspection.
Results logged to C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/escape_utils-0.3.2/ext/esc
ape_utils/gem_make.out

I've also done:

c:\Ruby193\DevKit>gem install eventmachine --pre

As discussed here.
-Error Installing Caldecott

HALP!!! What am I doing wrong?

Windows 7
Running CMD as Admin
Ruby v1.9.3
DevKit - installed, in Ruby Folder, and postinstall ran

Update:

I've attempted to create my own match.bat file in the c:/ruby193/devkit/mingw/bin that should forward the make command to mingw32-make, still successful but here is my code for the batch (match.bat) file.

@echo off
mingw32-make %*

As explained on this forum.
-make.bat

Still no luck, I'll likely continue to roll my face on the keyboard until I find a solution.

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Can you try to install without platform arugment, simply this command

$ gem install caldecott

what error you get now?

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  • Installing native gems on windows is always a pain. so, maybe it you can try to spin-up Ubuntu 12.04 in VirtualBox. On Linux, install native gems is quite easy & well supported. – CuriousMind Apr 09 '13 at 18:38
  • I might try that some time. I've been wanting to build a new desktop and have Windows and Ubuntu bootable. Just haven't had the cash money to build what I want. If I don't have any results by the end of tonight I suppose I'll have to result to VitrualBox. Cheers none the less. – Hollywood Conner Apr 09 '13 at 18:41