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Error installing sqlite3, failed to build native gem extension.

Running on Windows 10.

Following a codeacademy tutorial, I successfully installed Ruby on Rails (ruby version : 2.3.3p222 (2016-11-21 revision 56859) [i386-mingw32) (rails version : 5.1.7). Running 'bundle install' popped up with an error saying I needed to download SQlite.

No problem, I go to the SQLite website and download sqlite3. Re-running 'bundle install', I get an error saying :

'An error occurred while installing sqlite3 (1.4.0), and Bundler cannot continue. Make sure that gem install sqlite3 -v '1.4.0' --source 'https://rubygems.org/' succeeds before bundling.'

Following the suggestion, I run this command and get the following error:

'sqlite3.h is missing. Install SQLite3 from http://www.sqlite.org/ first. Could not create Makefile..'

I have download sqlite3 from the website, there is no sqlite3.h file in the folders. My google and SO searches have been fruitless.

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Can you try the steps here:

https://medium.com/@declancronje/installing-and-troubleshooting-ruby-on-rails-sqlite3-windows-10-fix-87c8886d03b

Github thread - https://github.com/sparklemotion/sqlite3-ruby/issues/224#issuecomment-482612096

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I am using windows 10, not linux.
oops. have modified the answer and posted the latest reference & fix to this issue. check it out
I checked out the thread and followed the steps without success. Check out my comment here as to why it failed - github.com/sparklemotion/sqlite3-ruby/issues/…
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Go to Gemfile and replace gem'sqlite3' to gem 'sqlite3', '< 1.4'

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