Problems installing Thin on windows 7 x86

Question

I\'m having problems getting thin working on my Windows 7 machine (I\'ve already installed eventmachine v0.8.1):

>gem install thin --i

Answer 1

I've worked around the lack of precompiled binaries by installing a compiler:

1. I iInstalled MinGW to C:\MinGW (see here for installation instructions)
2. I then installed MSYS to C:\msys\1.0
3. I then added c:\MinGW\bin and C:\msys\1.0\bin to my %PATH%
4. Finally I ran gem install thin and amazingly it all worked!

I hope this helps out some other poor Windows ruby developer! :-)