Vagrant, Windows, and DigitalOcean - anybody got this working?

Posted on September 13, 2013

I’ve been trying (without success) to install the plugin vagrant-digitalocean in a Windows environment. I installed the latest version of Vagrant (1.3.1) However, when I try and install the plugin for digitalocean, the install fails:

$ vagrant plugin install vagrant-digitalocean Installing the ‘vagrant-digitalocean’ plugin. This can take a few minutes… C:/Tools2/Vagrant/embedded/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/installer.rb:556:in `rescue in block in build_extensions’: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. (Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError)

    C:/Tools2/Vagrant/embedded/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb

creating Makefile

make generating generator-i386-mingw32.def compiling generator.c linking shared-object json/ext/generator.so

make install /usr/bin/install -c -m 0755 generator.so C: /usr/bin/install -c -m 0755 generator.so . /usr/bin/install: generator.so' and ./generator.so’ are the same file make: *** [and] Error 1

Unfortunately I’m too new to Vagrant / DigialOcean to know where the problem lies. (I don’t seem to have any problem building the json gem in a pure ruby+devkit environment.

Having spent a few hours on this without any success, I’m about to abandon hope! Does anyone have a working installation? Does anybody recognize a common problem? Thanks.

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Kamal Nasser

September 13, 2013

Try installing the ruby-dev package – does that fix it? <br>

pablo

September 14, 2013

B/f trying to install the DigitalOcean provider plugin, were you able to successfully deploy a <a href=“http://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/getting-started/boxes.html”>Vagrant Box</a>?