<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Dear Sir, I became interested in Ruby and so came across Cairo. I am running WinXP Pro SP2.I followed the instructions to install Cairo with the following result: Can you advice please? D:\Java\RubyOnRails\ruby-gnome2-all-0.16.0\rcairo-1.2.0\rcairo-1.2.0>c:\ruby\bin \ruby setup.rb config Processing the package `cairo' ... ---> lib <--- lib ---> ext c:/ruby/bin/ruby D:/Java/RubyOnRails/ruby-gnome2-all-0.16.0/rcairo-1.2.0/rcairo- 1.2.0/packages/cairo/ext/extconf.rb checking for GCC... no checking for cairo version (>= 1.2.0)... no *** D:/Java/RubyOnRails/ruby-gnome2-all-0.16.0/rcairo-1.2.0/rcairo-1.2.0/package s/cairo/ext/extconf.rb failed *** Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of necessary libraries and/or headers.  Check the mkmf.log file for more details.  You may need configuration options. Provided configuration options:         --with-opt-dir         --without-opt-dir         --with-opt-include         --without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include         --with-opt-lib         --without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib         --with-make-prog         --srcdir=D:/Java/RubyOnRails/ruby-gnome2-all-0.16.0/rcairo-1.2.0/rcairo- 1.2.0/packages/cairo/ext         --curdir         --ruby=c:/ruby/bin/ruby         --with-pkg-config         --without-pkg-config setup.rb:656:in `command': system("c:/ruby/bin/ruby" "D:/Java/RubyOnRails/ruby-g nome2-all-0.16.0/rcairo-1.2.0/rcairo-1.2.0/packages/cairo/ext/extconf.rb") faile d (RuntimeError)         from setup.rb:661:in `ruby'         from setup.rb:1237:in `extconf'         from setup.rb:1233:in `config_dir_ext'         from setup.rb:1498:in `__send__'         from setup.rb:1498:in `traverse'         from setup.rb:1515:in `dive_into'         from setup.rb:1496:in `traverse'         from setup.rb:1490:in `exec_task_traverse'          ... 8 levels...         from setup.rb:827:in `__send__'         from setup.rb:827:in `invoke'         from setup.rb:774:in `invoke'         from setup.rb:1544 D:\Java\RubyOnRails\ruby-gnome2-all-0.16.0\rcairo-1.2.0\rcairo-1.2.0>c:\ruby\bin \ruby setup.rb setup No such file or directory - .config setup.rb config first Try 'ruby setup.rb --help' for detailed usage. D:\Java\RubyOnRails\ruby-gnome2-all-0.16.0\rcairo-1.2.0\rcairo-1.2.0> Thank you zak </div></div></body></html>