jekyll serve dependency error - Could not open 'lib curl'

Question

I am trying to run bundle exec jekyll serve but it comes up with the error:

Dependency Error: Yikes! It looks like you don\'t have jekyll-remote-t

Answer 1

Working solution

It's probably not the 'correct' way but this worked for me:

• Obtain a libcurl.dll from one of the packages here:

  https://curl.haxx.se/download.html#Win64

  (Link was updated, but originally pointed to version 7.40)

• Put it on the PATH somehow.

  • (I just put it under \ruby24\bin\)
  • Maybe for you it's C:\Ruby24-x64\bin, which others have suggested.

About the problem

• Seems to be coming from Ruby-FFI. (as described here)

• I got the same error above about the dependencies of jekyll-remote-theme.

  (One of them is typhoeus which uses FFI.)

• Also, doing a github-pages health-check showed this error :

    ffi-1.9.18-x64-mingw32/lib/ffi/library.rb:147:in `block in ffi_lib': Could not 
    open libra (LoadError): The specified module could not be found.
    Could not open library 'libcurl.dll': The specified module could not be found.
    Could not open library 'libcurl.so.4': The specified module could not be 
    found.
    Could not open library 'libcurl.so.4.dll': The specified module could not be 
    found.

Things I tried that didn't work:

• Putting on the PATH the cygcurl-4.dll obtained from the current Curl Download Wizard
• Renaming the above cygcurl-4.dll to libcurl.dlland putting it on the PATH
• Installing the msys2 package libcurl-devel 7.57.0-1
• Renaming the msys-curl-4.dll (from msys2 found at msys64\usr\bin) to libcurl.dll

Didn't try:

• Building curl / libcurl from the latest source. Because I already had the latest according to pacman -Ss libcurl:

  msys/libcurl 7.57.0-1 (libraries) [installed] Multi-protocol file transfer library (runtime)

  msys/libcurl-devel 7.57.0-1 (development) [installed] Libcurl headers and libraries