Gem Charlock_holmes installation error on Windows XP - windows

Question

I am trying to run bundler for my RoR app on a Windows machine (Windows XP). But, while downloading the gems, it stops at the gem Charlock_Holmes and gives the following error.
'Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension
.
C:/Ruby192/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb
checking for main() in -licui18n... no
which: no brew in (.;C:\Devkit\bin;C:\Devkit\mingw\bin;C:\Ruby192\bin;C:\WINDOWS
\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\Git\cmd;C:\TCWIN4
5\BIN)
checking for main() in -licui18n... no
********************************************************************************
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*********** icu required (brew install icu4c or apt-get install libicu-dev) ****
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********************************************************************************
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*** 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:/Ruby192/bin/ruby
--with-icu-dir
--without-icu-dir
--with-icu-include
--without-icu-include=${icu-dir}/include
--with-icu-lib
--without-icu-lib=${icu-dir}/lib
--with-icui18nlib
--without-icui18nlib
--with-icui18nlib
--without-icui18nlib
Gem files will remain installed in C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/charlock_
holmes-0.6.9 for inspection.
Results logged to C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/charlock_holmes-0.6.9/ext/
charlock_holmes/gem_make.out
An error occurred while installing charlock_holmes (0.6.9), and Bundler cannot c
ontinue.
Make sure that `gem install charlock_holmes -v '0.6.9'` succeeds before bundling'
Can you please help me figure out where the problem is ?

Answer 1

icu required (brew install icu4c or apt-get install libicu-dev)
As is stated in your question, you need libicu-dev. If you are using Cygwin you can install the package
cygwin.com/packages/x86/libicu-devel