Attempting to install libv8, “failed to build gem native extension”

Question

I am using W7 64bit. Simply put, when I enter:

C:\\Sites>gem install libv8

I get this result:

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Answer 1

I had this problem, and @xiy above led me to the answer. Had to change

gem 'therubyracer'

to

gem 'therubyracer', :platforms => :ruby

as Windows does not need or like that gem.

Answer 2

The solution is to install version .0

gem install libv8 --version 3.11.8.0

until this is fixed, as I experienced this, too

Answer 3

I had the same windows problem that you described with:

gem 'twitter-bootstrap-rails'

When I switched this the version from github:

gem 'twitter-bootstrap-rails', :github => 'seyhunak/twitter-bootstrap-rails'

No problem. Give that a shot.