Bluecloth v2.0.10 with windows 7 not working

Question

WIth Ruby 187, I had downloaded devkit from http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads and followed the instruction per https://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/wiki/Development-Kit. I had also ensured that devkit is installed properly by following smoke test.

I had then tried installing bluecloth (v2.0.10). It had failed with following error:

C:\test\typo>gem install bluecloth --platform=ruby

Temporarily enhancing PATH to include DevKit...
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing bluecloth:
       ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

c:/Ruby187/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb
checking for srand()... yes
checking for random()... no
checking for rand()... yes
checking for bzero() in string.h,strings.h... no
checking for strcasecmp()... yes
checking for strncasecmp()... yes
checking for mkdio.h... yes
checking for ruby/encoding.h... no
creating extconf.h
creating Makefile

make
gcc -I. -I. -Ic:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-mingw32 -I. -
DRUBY_EXTCONF_H=\"extcon
f.h\"    -DVERSION=\"2.0.4\" -g -O2 -DFD_SETSIZE=256   -I. -Wall  -c
bluecloth.c

In file included from c:\rubydevkit\mingw\bin\../lib/gcc/
mingw32/4.5.1/../../../../include/windows.h:48:0,
                from c:\rubydevkit\mingw\bin\../lib/gcc/
mingw32/4.5.1/../../../../include/winsock2.h:22,
                from c:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-mingw32/win32/
win32.h:27,
                from c:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-mingw32/defines.h:
186,
                from c:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-mingw32/ruby.h:37,
                from bluecloth.h:14,
                from bluecloth.c:25:
c:\rubydevkit\mingw\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.5.1/../../../../include/
windef.h:229:23: error: duplicate 'unsigned'
c:\rubydevkit\mingw\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.5.1/../../../../include/
windef.h:238:23: error: duplicate 'unsigned'
c:\rubydevkit\mingw\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.5.1/../../../../include/
windef.h:238:23: error: two or more data types in declaration
specifiers
c:\rubydevkit\mingw\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.5.1/../../../../include/
windef.h:241:24: error: duplicate 'unsigned'
bluecloth.c: In function 'bluecloth_initialize':
bluecloth.c:190:9: warning: unused variable 'utf8text'
make: *** [bluecloth.o] Error 1

Gem files will remain installed in c:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/
bluecloth-2.0.10 for inspection.
Results logged to c:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bluecloth-2.0.10/
ext/gem_make.out

C:\test\typo>

Answer 1

If you need 2.2.0 (the latest version), here's how I got it to work:

1. Install DevKit

2. Run the command below to install bluecloth:

   gem install bluecloth

   this will fail miserably when building "native extensions", but will successfully install the gem's source code.

3. Patch bluecloth.h file (for me, this is found in: D:\ruby\Ruby-1.9.3-p125\lib\ruby\gems\1.9.1\gems\bluecloth-2.2.0\ext), with the patch from here: https://gist.github.com/1539611

4. Go to bluecloth's gem installation folder. For me, this looks like below:

   D:\ruby\Ruby-1.9.3-p125\lib\ruby\gems\1.9.1\gems\bluecloth-2.2.0

5. Run the following command:

   rake gem

   It may prompt you to install some other gems, follow accordingly. When it's done, you should see a bluecloth-2.2.0.gem created. For me, it is found here:

   D:\ruby\Ruby-1.9.3-p125\lib\ruby\gems\1.9.1\gems\bluecloth-2.2.0\pkg\bluecloth-2.2.0.gem

6. Go to bluecloth-2.2.0.gem location, and run the following command:

   gem install bluecloth-2.2.0.gem --platform=ruby

Answer 2

It seems there is a bug/issue with version 2.0.10 of BlueCloth. You can try using an older version like 2.0.7:

gem install bluecloth -v 2.0.7

Which seems to work.

Also probably this worth checking latest version (2.2.0?) and if not work, report it back to gem author:

http://deveiate.org/projects/BlueCloth/query