Archive for July, 2008

Building libxml-ruby gem on Ubuntu Hardy

no such file to load -- libxml_so


sudo apt-get install libxml2 libxml2-dev
cd /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/libxml-ruby-0.7.0
sudo ruby ext/libxml/extconf.rb
sudo make; sudo make install

Installing id3lib-ruby gem on OSX Leopard with id3lib from MacPorts

sudo port install id3lib
sudo ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386" gem install id3lib-ruby -- --build-flags --with-opt-dir=/opt/local

64-bit Windows?

I found Vista x64 surprisingly usable.