Installing ncurses for ruby on Windows

Question

I am trying to install ncurses for ruby on windows. I have not installed ncurses before on my machine. I thought that having the \"ruby devkit\", it had asked for would be e

Answer 1

I've successfully downloaded ncurses 0.9.1 binaries from sourceforge, so the library is still available.

I then tried with both native Ruby and IronRuby 1.1.3

1. placing the two files (ncurses.so ncurses.rb) in

   C:\Ruby\Ruby193\lib\ruby\1.9.1

   gives an error with native Ruby

   The specified module could not be found. - C:/Ruby/Ruby193/lib/ruby/1.9.1/ncurses.so (LoadError)

2. Placing them here (for IronRuby) C:\Program Files (x86)\IronRuby 1.1\Lib\ruby\1.9.1

   gives

   The module was expected to contain an assembly manifest. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131018)