installation of jekyll failed - Windows

Question

I am trying to install jekyll on a 32 bit windows 7 PC . I downloaded ruby installer-32 bit and 32 bit devkit and extracted un ruby install folder.i got some ssh error which i resolved by temporarily switching to http instead of https and then updated gems as well as installed bundler using

 gem install bundler

however gem install jekyll gives following error

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

C:/Ruby21/bin/ruby.exe -r ./siteconf20150109-5804-1k3wbva.rb extconf.rb
No such file or directory - C:/Ruby21/bin/ruby.exe -r ./siteconf20150109-5804-1k
3wbva.rb extconf.rb 2>&1

Gem files will remain installed in C:/Ruby21/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/fast-stemm
er-1.0.2 for inspection.
Results logged to C:/Ruby21/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/extensions/x86-mingw32/2.1.0/fas
t-stemmer-1.0.2/gem_make.out

Answer 1

I failed to install "gem install jekyll bundler" when ruby was installed in "c:\program files\Ruby26-x64". After I reinstalled ruby on c:\Ruby26-x64 everything went ok. Seems like installation fails to parse path with blank

Answer 2

I had the same issue on Windows 10 after installing Ruby+Devkit 2.5.X (x64) with the Windows installer.

The reason was that I changed the default path in the installer and had spaces in the path name. Apparently some make scripts do not like that.

Reinstalling to a path without any spaces fixed the issue.

Also see this related issue on github.

Answer 3

I tried the same thing on 3 systems and found out that installing ruby gems fixed the issue .. so for anyone coming back at this question , this is how you install jekyll on a windows pc:

1.download and install ruby.

2.download devkit extract in to a folder(preferably inside ruby installation dir) and type in cmd window while in your devkit dir :

 ruby dk.rb init
 ruby dk.rb install

3.download and install gems by

 ruby setup.rb

4. finally :

 gem install bundler 
 gem install jekyll

*bundler is a jekyll dependency

Answer 4

You need to install the Ruby DevKit to fix the error you're seeing. Any sane Ruby install has the ability to build stuff on the fly.

I would start with Julian Thilo's awesome instructions for installing Jekyll on Windows:

Run Jekyll on Windows

If you are installing Ruby only for the purpose of running Jekyll, PortableJekyll will give you a full working Jekyll install in < 5 minutes.

Happy Jekylling...