New to Ruby and Jekyll but generally tech savvy.
Trying to create a new Jekyll site.
Installed Ruby
Followed all the steps in the docs (some problems accessing Jekyll, resolved by editing Windows path and rebooting)
In VSCODE, ran
gem install jekyll bundler
which ran with no faults.
Tried to create a new jekyll site with
In VSCODE also
This reported the error error occurred while installing wdm (0.1.1), and Bundler cannot continue
I've looked at various solutions to this - since I am new to Ruby I haven't gone into any of its internals.
Ran
This reported Gem::Ext::BuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. with quite extensive diagnostics
Ran
This gave the same diagnostics. At the end it states
Gem files will remain installed in C:/Users/afree/.local/share/gem/ruby/3.3.0/gems/wdm-0.1.1 for inspection.
Results logged to C:/Users/afree/.local/share/gem/ruby/3.3.0/extensions/x64-mingw-ucrt/3.3.0/wdm-0.1.1/gem_make.out
I've gone through most of these steps also outside VScode, in both cmd and powershell
I am raising this in the Jekyll forum, but it seems to me that if this is the experience of a newbie following the documentation, it's serious enough to bring to the attention of the maintainers. Apologies (and let me know) if this is the wrong protocol.
New to Ruby and Jekyll but generally tech savvy.
Trying to create a new Jekyll site.
Installed Ruby
Followed all the steps in the docs (some problems accessing Jekyll, resolved by editing Windows path and rebooting)
In VSCODE, ran
which ran with no faults.
Tried to create a new jekyll site with
In VSCODE also
This reported the error
error occurred while installing wdm (0.1.1), and Bundler cannot continueI've looked at various solutions to this - since I am new to Ruby I haven't gone into any of its internals.
Ran
This reported
Gem::Ext::BuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.with quite extensive diagnosticsRan
This gave the same diagnostics. At the end it states
I've gone through most of these steps also outside VScode, in both cmd and powershell
I am raising this in the Jekyll forum, but it seems to me that if this is the experience of a newbie following the documentation, it's serious enough to bring to the attention of the maintainers. Apologies (and let me know) if this is the wrong protocol.