Eventmachine gem install fail

Question

I am not able to install eventmachine

Ok I know this has been asked quite a lot, but no solutions I found has helped me so far.So I posted here as a last resort.

Answer 1

I could install it, doing this steps:

1) tried a normal install:

gem install eventmachine

it fetched the version 1.0.3 of the gem, but failed in the make, because of a variable declaration conflit

2) edited the file:

c:\Ruby200-x64\lib\ruby\gems\2.0.0\gems\eventmachine-1.0.3\ext\project.h

and commented the line 97

//typedef int pid_t;

for a more robust correction, checkout the solution here https://github.com/eventmachine/eventmachine/pull/450/files

3) then, i've opened command prompt, and went to the gem folder

c:\Ruby200-x64\lib\ruby\gems\2.0.0\gems\eventmachine-1.0.3

and run:

gem build eventmachine.gemspec

You need git installed with the git.exe location in the PATH for this to work (such as C:\Users\YourUsername\AppData\Local\GitHub\PORTAB~1\bin).

4) it generated a eventmachine.gem file on the folder... So I've copied a file to a c:\tmp folder, and went to that folder and from there, I've typed:

gem install eventmachine-1.0.3.gem --local

And it installed successfully!