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Error on install for Windows #8

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@hathawayj

I cannot get this package to install on Windows 10. I am also a newbie to Ruby. Any help is appreciated. Does it have something to do with 64 and 32 bit?

c:\rubydev>gem install levenshtein-ffi
Temporarily enhancing PATH to include DevKit...
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR: Error installing levenshtein-ffi:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

C:/tools/ruby21/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb

creating Makefile

make "DESTDIR=" clean

make "DESTDIR="
generating levenshtein-x64-mingw32.def
compiling levenshtein.c
linking shared-object levenshtein.so
Cannot export Init_levenshtein: symbol not defined
collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [levenshtein.so] Error 1

make failed, exit code 2

Gem files will remain installed in C:/tools/ruby21/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/levenshtein-ffi-1.1.0 for inspection.
Results logged to C:/tools/ruby21/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/extensions/x64-mingw32/2.1.0/levenshtein-ffi-1.1.0/gem_make.out

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