Error while installing kgio on windows

Error while installing kgio on windows

[Siva Krishna]

Hi,

I am facing below error while installing on windows.. would you please help
me out to fix this

D:\silkcode_projects\sharetool>gem install kgio
Fetching: kgio-2.7.4.gem (100%)
Temporarily enhancing PATH to include DevKit...
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing kgio:
        ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

        C:/Ruby192/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb
checking for CLOCK_MONOTONIC in time.h... no
checking for CLOCK_MONOTONIC() in time.h... no
checking for clockid_t in time.h... no
checking for clock_gettime() in -lrt... no
checking for t_open() in -lnsl... no
checking for socket() in -lsocket... no
checking for poll() in poll.h... no
checking for getaddrinfo() in sys/types.h,sys/socket.h,netdb.h... no
getaddrinfo required
*** 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
        --without-make-prog
        --srcdir=.
        --curdir
        --ruby=C:/Ruby192/bin/ruby
        --with-rtlib
        --without-rtlib
        --with-nsllib
        --without-nsllib
        --with-socketlib
        --without-socketlib


Gem files will remain installed in
C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/kgio-2.7.
4 for inspection.
Results logged to
C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/kgio-2.7.4/ext/kgio/gem_ma
ke.out


Thanks & Regards,
Siva Krishna A

Re: Error while installing kgio on windows

[Eric Wong]

Siva Krishna <siva.krishna@silkcode.com> wrote:
> I am facing below error while installing on windows.. would you please help
> me out to fix this

Non-Free, non-POSIX systems are not supported and never will be.

However, a kgio-like API may be in Ruby itself one day:
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/5138