cowboyd/less.rb — Issue #15: Error installing less: Python not found!
Author: jenshedqvist
Created: 2011-12-20 16:16:59+00:00
State: open

It says nowhere I need python to run this thing on Windows 7 64-bit. Isn't this dependency supposed to be installed automatically?

```
C:\Users\jens>gem install less
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR: Error installing less:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

C:/Ruby192/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb
*** 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
Checking for Python...Unable to build libv8: Python not found!

Gem files will remain installed in C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/libv8-3.3.10.4 for inspection.
Results logged to C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/libv8-3.3.10.4/ext/libv8/gem_make.out

```