Ruby gem install fails: failed to build gem native extension

Question

I'm using win10. I've tried updating ruby, installing ruby with development kit, running ridk install, none worked. Here is the error message I'm getting:

Please help...

Temporarily enhancing PATH for MSYS/MINGW... Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing mspire: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

current directory: C:/Ruby30-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.0.0/gems/nokogiri-1.6.8.1/ext/nokogiri

C:/Ruby30-x64/bin/ruby.exe -I C:/Ruby30-x64/lib/ruby/site_ruby/3.0.0 -r ./siteconf20220329-1208-397ap8.rb extconf.rb checking if the C compiler accepts ... yes Building nokogiri using packaged libraries. Using mini_portile version 2.1.0

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IMPORTANT NOTICE:

Building Nokogiri with a packaged version of zlib-1.2.8.

Team Nokogiri will keep on doing their best to provide security updates in a timely manner, but if this is a concern for you and want to use the system library instead; abort this installation process and reinstall nokogiri as follows:

gem install nokogiri -- --use-system-libraries
    [--with-xml2-config=/path/to/xml2-config]
    [--with-xslt-config=/path/to/xslt-config]

If you are using Bundler, tell it to use the option:

bundle config build.nokogiri --use-system-libraries
bundle install

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404 Not Found *** 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:/Ruby30-x64/bin/$(RUBY_BASE_NAME) --help --clean --use-system-libraries --enable-static --disable-static --with-zlib-dir --without-zlib-dir --with-zlib-include --without-zlib-include=${zlib-dir}/include --with-zlib-lib --without-zlib-lib=${zlib-dir}/lib --enable-cross-build --disable-cross-build C:/Ruby30-x64/lib/ruby/3.0.0/digest.rb:50:in initialize': No such file or directory @ rb_sysopen - C:/Ruby30-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.0.0/gems/nokogiri-1.6.8.1/ports/archives/zlib-1.2.8.tar.gz (Errno::ENOENT) from C:/Ruby30-x64/lib/ruby/3.0.0/digest.rb:50:in open' from C:/Ruby30-x64/lib/ruby/3.0.0/digest.rb:50:in file' from C:/Ruby30-x64/lib/ruby/3.0.0/digest.rb:35:in file' from C:/Ruby30-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.0.0/gems/mini_portile2-2.1.0/lib/mini_portile2/mini_portile.rb:257:in verify_file' from C:/Ruby30-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.0.0/gems/mini_portile2-2.1.0/lib/mini_portile2/mini_portile.rb:51:in block in download' from C:/Ruby30-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.0.0/gems/mini_portile2-2.1.0/lib/mini_portile2/mini_portile.rb:49:in each' from C:/Ruby30-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.0.0/gems/mini_portile2-2.1.0/lib/mini_portile2/mini_portile.rb:49:in download' from C:/Ruby30-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.0.0/gems/mini_portile2-2.1.0/lib/mini_portile2/mini_portile.rb:14 from extconf.rb:365:in block (2 levels) in process_recipe' from extconf.rb:257:in chdir' from extconf.rb:257:in chdir_for_build' from extconf.rb:364:in block in process_recipe' from <internal:kernel>:90:in tap' from extconf.rb:263:in process_recipe' from extconf.rb:483:in `<main>'

To see why this extension failed to compile, please check the mkmf.log which can be found here:

C:/Ruby30-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.0.0/extensions/x64-mingw32/3.0.0/nokogiri-1.6.8.1/mkmf.log

extconf failed, exit code 1