Install Ruby Curb gem in windows XP

Question

I\'m trying to do file uploads with ruby 1.8 and it seems like there are no good out-of-the-box solutions. They all seem to need some 3rd party patch or fork of a project to

Answer 1

I used Evan's install config in his answer with the correct libcurl binary from the wizard: http://curl.haxx.se/dlwiz/

gem install curb -- --with-curl-lib="C:/curl/curl-7.21.1-devel-mingw32/bin" --with-curl-include="C:/curl/curl-7.21.1-devel-mingw32/include"

This worked for me on win XP 64 bit.

Make sure to select libcurl with the description about being the binary for libcurl software development.