librarian-puppet fails to install on windows

Question

I am new to puppet. I am trying to install librarian-puppet in my windows system. I have followed the following installation steps before I started to install librarian-puppet :

1. Download and install puppet from the windows msi file from https://downloads.puppetlabs.com/windows/ (NOT gem install puppet).
2. You must run everything from the "Start Command Prompt with Puppet" not a normal Windows Command prompt.

3. Before installing librarian-puppet the the Ruby DevKit is needed:

   a. Select "Start Command Prompt with Puppet" to go to a Command Windows.

   b. Download and install devkit from http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads

   c. In the devkit directory run “ruby dk.rb init”.

   d. Edit the config.yml generated and add the the path of the ruby install for puppet (it will be /sys/ruby).

   e. run “ruby dk.rb install” to bind it to the puppet ruby installation.

and finally I did:

gem install librarian-puppet

But the error I get is:

ERROR:  Error installing librarian-puppet:
        ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

and the output of execution looks like this:

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

        C:/Ruby193/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb
creating Makefile

make
'make' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.


Gem files will remain installed in C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/json-1.8.
1 for inspection.
Results logged to C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/json-1.8.1/ext/json/ext/ge
nerator/gem_make.out

Am I missing something here ? Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

If you install librarian-puppet 1.1.x or later it should not require the json gem that fails to build