Ruby sqlite3 gem installation issue on Windows 10 - ruby

Question

I am very new to ruby and rails. I am trying to install to sqlite3 for trying a tutorial and having issues. I am on Windows 10 and using ruby 2.6.1p33 (2019-01-30 revision 66950) [x64-mingw32].
Here is the installation error I am getting while running gem install sqlite3-ruby. I have also tried running gem install sqlite3 --platform=ruby -- --with-sqlite3-include=c:/sqlite3/include --with-sqlite3-lib=c:/sqlite3/lib
C:/Ruby26-x64/bin/ruby.exe -I C:/Ruby26-x64/lib/ruby/2.6.0 -r ./siteconf20190217-3116-1d59gcv.rb extconf.rb
checking for sqlite3.h... yes
checking for pthread_create() in -lpthread... yes
checking for -ldl... no
checking for dlopen()... no
missing function dlopen
*** 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
--without-make-prog
--srcdir=.
--curdir
--ruby=C:/Ruby26-x64/bin/$(RUBY_BASE_NAME)
--with-sqlcipher
--without-sqlcipher
--with-sqlite3-config
--without-sqlite3-config
--with-pkg-config
--without-pkg-config
--with-sqlcipher
--without-sqlcipher
--with-sqlite3-dir
--without-sqlite3-dir
--with-sqlite3-include
--without-sqlite3-include=${sqlite3-dir}/include
--with-sqlite3-lib
--without-sqlite3-lib=${sqlite3-dir}/lib
--with-pthreadlib
--without-pthreadlib
--with-dllib
--without-dllib
To see why this extension failed to compile, please check the mkmf.log which can be found here:
C:/Ruby26-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/extensions/x64-mingw32/2.6.0/sqlite3-1.4.0/mkmf.log
extconf failed, exit code 1
I have downloaded sqlite3 from their site and here is the folder structure of C:\sqlite3\
sqldiff.exe
sqlite3.exe
sqlite3_analyzer.exe
include\shell.c
include\sqlite3.c
include\sqlite3.h
include\sqlite3ext.h
lib\sqlite3.def
lib\sqlite3.dll
I have also copied sqldiff.exe, sqlite3.exe and sqlite3_analyzer.exe to C:\Ruby26-x64\bin.
In my environment variable, I have added C:\sqlite3\ to PATH and also created a new environment variable sqlite3-dir pointing to C:\sqlite3\
Could someone please provide some help for this installation problem?

Answer 1

adding gem 'sqlite3', git: "https://github.com/larskanis/sqlite3-ruby", branch: "add-gemspec" in the project Gemfile file works. After that run bundle install. Make sure to install git in the machine. This is the github link

Answer 2

For solving this issue for all the projects I downloaded the gem file from https://rubygems.org/ and saved it locally, installed MinGW by cmd
C:\Sites>ridk exec pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-dlfcn
and the SQLite 3 gem after
C:\Sites>gem install --local C:\sqlite3-1.4.0.gem
and it worked for all the next projects created on Sites folder if you need to fix a project already created trying running bundle install again after those lines.
I also tried including the SQLite 3 files to the path but it didn't work for me either

Answer 3

This is what has currently worked for me and it's a per project fix; Samiul Alam Anik's answer, but with an addition. After you follow those steps, you might get a requires Bundler 2 and this is solved for me with gem update --system thanks to this GitHub ticket.

Answer 4

Make sure you have current Ruby version installed on your computer, install node ja, install yarn, update npm, update gem Ruby.
C:\Users\adilkemo>ruby --version
ruby 3.0.1p64 (2021-04-05 revision 0fb782ee38) [x64-mingw32]
C:\Users\adilkemo>gem --version
3.2.15
C:\Users\adilkemo>node --version
v16.4.2
C:\Users\adilkemo>yarn --version
1.22.10
C:\Users\adilkemo>npm --version
7.18.1
C:\Users\adilkemo>sqlite3 --version
3.36.0 2021-06-18 18:36:39 5c9a6c06871cb9fe42814af9c039eb6da5427a6ec28f187af7ebfb62eafa66e5
C:\Users\adilkemo>gem install rails
C:\Users\adilkemo>rails --version
Rails 6.1.4
C:\Users\adilkemo>cd Desktop
C:\Users\adilkemo\Desktop>rails new blog
C:\Users\adilkemo\Desktop>cd blog
C:\Users\adilkemo\Desktop\blog>bin/rails server - Goodbye!
Exiting
Terminate batch job (Y/N)? y
C:\Users\adilkemo\Desktop\blog>
https://rubyinstaller.org/
https://guides.rubygems.org/rubygems-basics/
https://nodejs.org/en/
https://classic.yarnpkg.com/en/docs/install/#windows-stable
https://www.sqlite.org/download.html
https://guides.rubyonrails.org/v5.0/getting_started.html