I'm try to install the SQLite gem on a Fedora 9 Linux box with Ruby 1.8.6, Rails 2.2.2, gem 1.3, and sqlite-3.5.9. Here's the command I'm running and its results:
sudo gem install sqlite3-ruby
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR: Error installing sqlite3-ruby:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
/usr/bin/ruby extconf.rb install sqlite3-ruby
can't find header files for ruby.
Gem files will remain installed in /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sqlite3-ruby-1.2.4 for inspection.
Results logged to /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sqlite3-ruby-1.2.4/ext/sqlite3_api/gem_make.out
gem_make.out just repeats what was already sent to the console. How can I install this gem?
The SQLite RubyGem isn't actually a RubyGem, it's a "CGem", IOW it's written in C. This means it has to be compiled and linked to the Ruby interpreter when you install it and in order to do that it needs the C header files for the Ruby interpreter.
If you compile Ruby yourself, those header files will be installed automatically, however, in RedHat-ish systems, such header files are usually packaged in a seperate package, called <whatever>-dev. So, in this case you will need to install the ruby-dev package and possibly the libsqlite3-dev (Ubuntu) or sqlite-devel (Fedora) package as well.
However, you might be better off just installing your Operating System's pre-packaged libsqlite3-ruby package, that way all the dependencies are automatically satisfied.
(Note: all package names pulled out of thin air, might be different on your system.)
You probably need the ruby dev package. For Ubuntu you have to install ruby1.8-dev which includes the ruby header files. A quick google says that the yum package is ruby-devel. so run this:
sudo yum install ruby-devel
I faced problem installing sqlite3-ruby gem on my fedora 13 box.
It was fixed after sudo yum install sqlite-devel
When I had that problem:
gem install sqlite3 -v '1.3.9'
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR: Error installing sqlite3:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
For me worked, installing the "libsqlite3-dev" with:
apt-get install libsqlite3-dev
sudo apt-get install ruby-dev
Fixed it for me.
On Ubuntu 9 and 10 try:
sudo apt-get install ruby-dev
sudo apt-get install sqlite3-dev
Then run
gem install sqlite3
Run the following for Fedora OS:
yum install rubygem-sqlite3
On alpine, you need to install the sqlite-dev package.
I also faced this same issue, the problem is that your Linux installation requires the development libraries for SQLite3 to be installed in order to build the gem.
Here's how I fixed the issue
Open your terminal and run the following commands
sudo apt-get install sqlite3
sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev
And then try installing Sqlite3 gem again using this command
gem install sqlite3
That's all.
I hope this helps
Do you have all the source code required to build sqlite3-ruby? Gem is trying to compile some C code and cannot find the headers. You can probably use a fedora rpm for sqlite3-ruby (I don't use fedora, but I'm sure one exists) if you prefer to forgo compiling. Personally for ruby stuff, I prefer to use gem rather than a distro's packaging system.
I'm not really familiar with Fedora, but in Ubuntu when you are installing packages you have apt-get, and you have to install the build-essentials which includes gcc and other compilation tools for C. I would say that could be your issue, and you make look into how that can be install either using RPM or apt-get on Fedora.
I fixed the problem on my OLPC (Fedora 9) by installing 'gcc' oddly enough. It seems like it should have been one of those dev packages, but no.
Also, regarding the other packages, the suffix is "-devel", not "-dev", so make sure you get those ending right: "ruby-devel", "sqlite-devel"...
Once you get that installed, if you get errors about your gems being too old "< 1.3.1" when you try to run various rails scripts, eg: script/server or script/console, google "upgrade_rubygems" to fix that problem...
HTH...
Run "sudo yum install sqlite-devel" and then "gem install sqlite3". Had the same problem on my Fedora 15.
I had this same exact issue...instead of gem'ing the missing pieces I used synaptic on unbuntu.
The key package for me was libsqlite-ruby1.9.1 ... I documented my experience (for reference) with this error at :
Sqlite3-gem-error-during-bundle-install
I encountered this error while running bundle install after generating a react-rails app on Fedora 29. I was able to identify a suitable development package by running dnf search sqlite3, then installed it dnf install libsqlite3x-devel. This fixed it for me.
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I'm having some trouble installing jekyll. Can't quite figure out how to patch the missing link. I think it's an update to Ruby, but RVM is having trouble installing alternate versions of ruby as well.
Heres the full post:
$ sudo gem install jekyll
ERROR: Error installing jekyll:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby extconf.rb
mkmf.rb can't find header files for ruby at /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/ruby.h
Gem files will remain installed in /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/fast-stemmer-1.0.1 for inspection.
Results logged to /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/fast-stemmer-1.0.1/ext/gem_make.out
Does this mean I need to update the version of ruby I'm using via rvm?
Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install ruby-dev
gem install jekyll
Your problem is that either you system doesn't know where make is located at or you don't have it installed. The easiest way to fix this (and probably other issues you'll run into trying to get a ruby system up and running) is to install xcode.
You can get it at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/xcode/id497799835?ls=1&mt=12 for lion. Or it came on a CD with your computer for earlier versions.
If you're using Lion, please see comments below for a link to how to install developer tools on Lion.
I had the same error on Ubuntu and this helped me sort it out.
You must have ruby-dev installed
apt-get install ruby-dev
If you installed XCode and command line tools are still missing go to Terminal and
xcode-select --install
it will prompt you to install these tools. After that just follow SrBlanco´s answer. That solved the problem for me.
Good luck.
Need to install "make".
I am using Ubuntu 12.10.
sudo apt-get install make
Should work on any Debian based distro.
Note: this problem also occurs on newer MacBook Pro models that come with Mavericks pre-installed. I updated another post with my own solution that didn't involve Xcode at all. My system had the Xcode developer tools installed when I got the machine.
ERROR: Error installing jekyll: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension
Install Xcode as mentioned if you don't have it installed already (https://developer.apple.com/xcode/). Plus you need the command line tools.
Open Xcode. Go to Preferences > Downloads > Install Command Line Tools
Installing command line tools for Xcode solved the problem for me on my Mac
xcode-select --install.
sudo apt-get install ruby-dev
sudo gem install jekyll
hope this will help, it works with me.
I had this same exact error when trying to install Jekyll, and the following steps from this link helped me. Just in case anyone else comes across this!
http://davidensinger.com/2013/03/installing-jekyll/
I was facing the same issue in my Fedora 22 setup. I had ruby installed but didn't have ruby-devel. Installing ruby-devel fixed the issue for me.
dnf install -y ruby-devel
For older systems:
yum install -y ruby-devel
I followed this on Ubuntu/Linux Mint
sudo apt install build-essential
sudo apt install ruby-dev
sudo gem install jekyll
An addendum: You can install XCode now from the App Store on Mountain Lion. The process is transparent and pretty fast.
I had the same problems with you.
I use Mac OS X 10.9 develop preview version, and I had installed gcc and Xcode.
But my Xcode version is 4.6.
Then I install the Xcode 5.0
After that I type sudo gem install jekyll in the terminal again. Then it works.
Wish it could help someone.
Installing Xcode and going to perferencs > downloads > install commandline tools WORKS!
Same problem on Debian, I had forgot to run this command:
~/.rvm/scripts/rvm
All these answers did NOT work for me.
If you're looking for a solution on ubuntu 14.04, do this:
sudo apt-get install ruby1.9.1-dev zlib1g-dev nodejs
sudo gem install jekyll -v 2.5.3
Unfortunately, nodejs is required because of a bug in Jekyll that enforces existence of runtime JS engine even though it doesn't need one.
For Ubuntu, this helped in my case:
apt-get install libffi-dev
A general advice is to just follow what is displayed as the reason for the error and hopefully you'll be provided with a log file in which the first line suggests which package should be installed, in my case:
To see why this extension failed to compile, please check the mkmf.log which can be found here:
/var/lib/gems/2.3.0/extensions/x86_64-linux/2.3.0/ffi-1.9.21/mkmf.log
MacOS
my solution to this problem
install xcode
type xcode-select --install in the command line
type sudo gem install jekyll in the command line
PS: It is the combination of the two answers in this question.
You are missing the ruby-dev file , just go ahead and run this command - sudo apt-get install ruby-dev
Hope this helps!!
I had the same issue on my macOS(10.14.2), the reason may be:
Apparently with OSX el Capitan, there is a new security function that prevents you from modifying system files called Rootless.
My solution is using rvm:
install ruby on Mac OS X with RVM
gem install jekyll
On windows I have this issue
I actually installed the version rubyinstaller-devkit-2.6.3-1-x64 of ruby
I have removed the ruby completely and Installed the rubyinstaller-devkit-2.5.5-1-x64
and issued the following commands on powershell
gem install bundler
gem install jekyll
and this time no errors where found
I had this issue and of all things, the error was occurring because I hadn't agreed to some updated terms of service in xcode. Running the following did the trick for me. Go figure.
sudo xcodebuild -license accept
For me, I had to upgrade homebrew and install rbenv to the latest ruby version. After that, I followed the instruction at jekyll website. My OS is Catalina 2019, I couldn't install Xcode, which is not compatible yet!
You have to set the path in your .bash_profile to make sure that it initializes the rbenv when you restart your terminal.
export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"
eval "$(rbenv init -)"
then
$ rbenv version
2.2.3 (set by /Users/mislav/.rbenv/version)
$ rbenv shell
rbenv: no shell-specific version configured
hope that help!
Here is the (only?) reliable and simple way to install Jekyll on macOS
Install UTM
Install Ubuntu Server
Install Jekyll using Ubuntu instructions at https://jekyllrb.com/docs/installation/ubuntu/
Forward port 22 in the VM settings (22->localhost->22)
Use VS Code on the macOS host
Install Remote SSH
Connect to USER#localhost
Drag and drop the folder on Mac into VS Code (this transfers files to remote)
Enable port forwarding for 4000 (bottom bar on VS Code)
Work on your website
Right click on your website on the file explorer and click download
If you have not done these steps, you might be delighted by:
Ubuntu imports your public SSH key from GitHub
VS Code magically handles file transfer in and out
VS Code magically installs your VS Code extensions onto the remote server and allows file search on the remote host
Ruby 1.9.3
The part of Gemfile
#...............
gem "pony"
gem "bcrypt-ruby", :require => "bcrypt"
gem "nokogiri"
#..................
When I'm trying to install gems, I get an error
alex#ubuntu:~/$ bundle
Fetching gem metadata from http://rubygems.org/.........
Fetching gem metadata from http://rubygems.org/..
Enter your password to install the bundled RubyGems to your system:
#####............................................................
Installing bcrypt-ruby (3.0.1) with native extensions
Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
/usr/bin/ruby1.9.1 extconf.rb
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require': cannot load such file -- mkmf (LoadError)
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
from extconf.rb:36:in `<main>'
Gem files will remain installed in /home/alex/.bundler/tmp/5526/gems/bcrypt-ruby-3.0.1 for inspection.
Results logged to /home/alex/.bundler/tmp/5526/gems/bcrypt-ruby-3.0.1/ext/mri/gem_make.out
An error occurred while installing bcrypt-ruby (3.0.1), and Bundler cannot continue.
Make sure that `gem install bcrypt-ruby -v '3.0.1'` succeeds before bundling.
Then I'm doing this
sudo gem install bcrypt-ruby -v '3.0.1'
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR: Error installing bcrypt-ruby:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
/usr/bin/ruby1.9.1 extconf.rb
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require': cannot load such file -- mkmf (LoadError)
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
from extconf.rb:36:in `<main>'
Gem files will remain installed in /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/bcrypt-ruby-3.0.1 for inspection.
Results logged to /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/bcrypt-ruby-3.0.1/ext/mri/gem_make.out
and getting an error as well.
What did I miss?
There are similar questions:
`require': no such file to load -- mkmf (LoadError)
Failed to build gem native extension (mkmf (LoadError)) - Ubuntu 12.04
Usually, the solution is:
sudo apt-get install ruby-dev
Or, if that doesn't work, depending on your ruby version, run something like:
sudo apt-get install ruby1.9.1-dev
Should fix your problem.
Still not working? Try the following after installing ruby-dev:
sudo apt-get install make
For WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) you need install build-essential package:
sudo apt install build-essential
Just finished a 2 hour wild goose chase trying to solve this. None of the posted answers worked for me. Im on a Mac (Mojave Version 10.14.6, Xcode Version 11.3).
It turns out the ruby file headers were missing so i had to run open /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Packages/macOS_SDK_headers_for_macOS_10.14.pkg
That didnt work for me at first because the version of CommandLineTools i had installed did not have the "Packages" folder. So i uninstalled and reinstalled like this:
rm -rf /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools
xcode-select --install
Then i ran the previous command again:
open /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Packages/macOS_SDK_headers_for_macOS_10.14.pkg
After install the error was fixed!
I had the same issue trying to install jquery-rails. The fix was
sudo apt-get install zlibc zlib1g zlib1g-dev
For MacOS users:
Just do this and easily it will solve your problem:
brew install cocoapods
In case anyone in the future had this problem, I'm using a Mac and just had to install the Command Line Tools using 'xcode-select --install'
I found that I needed to install another version of ruby. So running the command
$ sudo apt-get install ruby1.9.1-dev
and then attempt to install the extension
If you run into issues where it is telling you that you don't have g++ you can run the following command to install it
$ sudo apt-get install g++
Make sure ruby-dev is installed
Make sure make is installed
If you still get the error, look for suggested packages. If you are trying to install something like gem install pg you will also need to install the lib libpq-dev (sudo apt-get install libpq-dev).
I created a small hackMD to install cocoapods on MacOS 10.15 (Catalina) and 11 (Big Sur)
https://hackmd.io/#sBJPlhRESGqCKCqV8ZjP1A/S1UY3W7HP
Installing Cocoapods on MacOS Catalina(MacOS 10.15.X) and Big Sur (MacOS 11)
Make sure you have xcode components are installed.
Download 'Command Line Tools' (about 500MB) directly from this link (Requires you to have apple account)
https://developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action
Install the downloaded file
Click on Install
Install COCOAPODS files in terminal
sudo gem install -n /usr/local/bin cocoapods
This worked for me.
bundle config --global build.snappy --with-opt-dir="$(brew --prefix snappy)"
It also helps to ensure libmysqlclient-dev is installed (Ubuntu 14.04)
What ended up working for me after a few hours of pain..
if you're running brew..
brew install ruby
in the terminal output/log, identify the path where ruby was installed, brew suggests 'You may want to add this to your PATH', so that's what we'll do. For example, mine is
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/3.0.0/bin
Add this to your path by running (omitting braces)
echo 'export PATH"{the_path_you_found_above}:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile
then update your environment by running
source ~/.bash_profile
now, try running your install, i.e.,
sudo gem install middleman
If you are a mac user you must need to update the clang version being used
I burnt hours searching this and installed uninstalled xcode commandline tools but it didn't help.
I ran gcc -v and Apple clang version 11.0.0 (clang-1100.0.33.8 was the output.
Then I ran xcode-select -s /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/ and clang version was updated to Apple clang version 12.0.0 (clang-1200.0.32.29).
bundle install was successful after that.
I hope this may help.
I was making a word search app and I had to install cocoapods and after formatting my mac and reinstalling xcode, I still got the error when I wanted to install cocoapods.
And the solution for this was the following:
It looks like CocoaPods 1.9.0, the latest version as of this writing, depends on a newer version of Ruby than 2.3.7. But macOS Mojave only includes Ruby 2.3.7, so you have a few different options.
Upgrade to macOS Catalina and get Ruby 2.6.3
Use Ruby Version Manager to install a newer version of Ruby
Install an older version of CocoaPods
sudo gem install cocoapods -v 1.8.4
I did 3:
sudo gem install cocoapods -v 1.8.4
In Mac, for me this works:
CONFIGURE_OPTS="--enable-shared" rbenv install 2.2.2
After some search for a solution, it turns out the -dev package is needed, not just ruby1.8. So if you have ruby1.9.1 doing
sudo apt-get install ruby1.9.1-dev
or to install generic ruby version, use (as per #lamplightdev comment):
sudo apt-get install ruby-dev
should fix it.
Try to locate mkmf to see if the file is actually there.
first set your Xcode version on the terminal:
sudo xcode-select -switch /Applications/Xcode.app
then install:
sudo gem install cocoapods
I'm setting up servers. I'm installing rails on an Amazon Linux
Installed List: ruby, development tools, gems, zlib-devel, readline-devel.
I'm trying to install rails and now I'm stuck here
$ sudo gem install rails Building native extensions. This could take
a while... ERROR: Error installing rails: ERROR: Failed to build gem
native extension.
/usr/bin/ruby extconf.rb mkmf.rb can't find header files for ruby at /usr/lib/ruby/ruby.h
Gem files will remain installed in
/usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/json-1.6.3 for inspection. Results
logged to
/usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/json-1.6.3/ext/json/ext/parser/gem_make.out
Is there a problem with this json library?
You need to install the following
yum install ruby-devel
yum install make
yum install gcc
You should be using Ruby 1.9.x, to upgrade Ruby:
sudo yum install ruby19
and also
sudo yum install ruby19-devel
sudo yum install make
sudo yum install gcc
If you've installed rvm, make sure to use rvm gem install rails
THe problem has nothing to do with RVM. The problem is you need ruby source header files. Compile ruby from source(RVM does that) or install the appropiate headers for your ruby version.
What is amazon linux(there is not such thing) ? is it ubuntu or what ?
How did you installed ruby ? what does ruby -v says ?
I was trying to install rails on Ubuntu Natty Narwhal 11.04, using ruby1.9.1.
I installed ruby using apt-get install ruby1.9.1-full which contains the dev package. I googled the error and all have suggested I install the 1.9.1-dev which I already have.
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR: Error installing rails:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
/usr/bin/ruby1.8 extconf.rb
extconf.rb:36:in `require': no such file to load -- mkmf (LoadError)
from extconf.rb:36
Gem files will remain installed in /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bcrypt-ruby-3.0.1 for inspection.
Results logged to /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bcrypt-ruby-3.0.1/ext/mri/gem_make.out
After some search for a solution it turns out the -dev package is needed, not just ruby1.8. So if you have ruby1.9.1 doing
sudo apt-get install ruby1.9.1-dev
or to install generic ruby version, use (as per #lamplightdev comment):
sudo apt-get install ruby-dev
should fix it.
Try locate mkmf to see if the file is actually there.
This is the answer that worked for me. Was in the comments above, but deserves its rightful place as answer for ubuntu 12.04 ruby 1.8.7
sudo apt-get install ruby-dev
# if above doesnt work make sure you have build essential
sudo apt-get install build-essential
I also needed build-essential installed:
sudo apt-get install build-essential
The problem is still is recursive on Ubuntu 13/04/13.10/14.04
and
sudo apt-get install ruby1.9.1-dev
worked out for me okay. So If you are using Ubuntu 13.04/13.10/14.04 then using this will really come in handy.
This works even if ruby version is 1.9.3. This is because there is no ruby1.9.3-dev available in the Repository...
Have you tried:
sudo apt-get install ruby1.8-dev
I got the similar error when install bundle
sudo apt-get install ruby-dev
Works great for me and solve the problem
Mint 16 ruby1.9.3
I think is a little late but
sudo yum install -y gcc ruby-devel libxml2 libxml2-devel libxslt libxslt-devel
worked for me on fedora.
http://nokogiri.org/tutorials/installing_nokogiri.html
You've Ruby 1.8 so you need to upgrade to at least 1.9 to make it working.
If so, then check How to install a specific version of a ruby gem?
If this won't help, then reinstalling ruby-dev again.
You can use RVM(Ruby version manager) which helps in managing all versions of ruby on your machine , which is very helpful for you development (when migrating to unstable release to stable release )
or for Linux (ubuntu) go for
sudo apt-get install ruby1.8-dev
then sudo gem install rails to verify it do rails -v it will show version on rails
after that you can install bundles (required gems for development)
Ruby version: 2.7.1
gem version: 3.1.3
You need to check the extension that could not be installed, and find the reasons.
Read the mkmf.log file showed at the installation error under "To see why this extension failed to compile, please check the mkmf.log which can be found here" , perhaps there is a missing lib ( sometimes iconv ), and you must install it.
You can search the extension with your package manager(apt, yum, pacman...) too.
(Personal case) Arch Linux->nokogiri
gem install rails
Showed me:
To see why this extension failed to compile, please check the mkmf.log
which can be found here:
/home/user/.gem/ruby/2.7.0/extensions/x86_64-linux/2.7.0/nokogiri-1.10.9/mkmf.log
Go to: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ruby-nokogiri/
Make sure you have all dependencies installed
Make sure you have make installed
git clone the package
cd to package
makepkg the package
Hope to help!
I always worked my way around Nokogiri installation issues by following the documentation in the "Installing Nokogiri" tutorial.
But this time, even after installing all the dependencies, Nokogiri hasn't been installed. I get the following error:
libxml2 is missing. please visit <http://nokogiri.org/tutorials/installing_nokogiri.html>
I tried installing it by specifying the libxml2 and libxslt directories:
sudo gem install nokogiri -- --with-xml2-include=/usr/include/libxml2 --with-xml2-lib=/usr/lib --with-xslt-dir=/usr/
but it returned the same error.
I followed all the other related Stack Overflow articles and none helped. Does anyone have a solution?
You may actually need to install both of these packages
sudo apt-get install libxslt-dev libxml2-dev
First, install the dependencies:
sudo apt-get install libxslt-dev libxml2-dev
If you still receive the error, you may be missing a compiler toolchain:
sudo apt-get install build-essential
You'll get the "libxml2 is missing" error if you're missing a build toolchain (at least I ran into this issue on Debian Lenny).
The Nokogiri build test-compiles a libxml2 header file to verify that it is present, however, it doesn't differentiate between "libxml2 is missing" and "a compiler to test libxml2 is missing".
In Mac OS X (Mavericks), installing the libraries with brew and setting NOKOGIRI_USE_SYSTEM_LIBRARIES=1 before installing the gem did the trick for me.
Summarising:
If previously installed, uninstall the gem:
gem uninstall nokogiri
Use Homebrew to install libxml2, libxslt and libiconv:
brew install libxml2 libxslt libiconv
Install the gem specifying the paths to the libraries to be linked against:
NOKOGIRI_USE_SYSTEM_LIBRARIES=1 gem install nokogiri -- --use-system-libraries --with-iconv-dir="$(brew --prefix libiconv)" --with-xml2-config="$(brew --prefix libxml2)/bin/xml2-config" --with-xslt-config="$(brew --prefix libxslt)/bin/xslt-config"
I just had the same issue on Fedora 13. After a frustrating and unsuccessful search to make
gem install nokogiri
work for me, I was able to install it and get around the libxml2 error via yum.
Simply install the gem via yum instead of the gem command:
su
yum search rubygem-nokogiri #this find the proper package name
yum install rubygem-nokogiri.i686
This helped me find the right answer for Fedora and, as I am using RVM for Ruby package management,
yum install rubygem-nokogiri
will pull in all the Ruby gems and dependencies into the system, not into my RVM environment, and in my experience that leads to a very frustrating and humbling experience.
So, taking your find of the Nokogiri yum gem you can use:
yum provides rubygem-nokogiri
and get a list of the dependencies for rubygem-Nokogiri which showed me the libraries that were missing. After that I ran:
yum install libxml2-devel libxslt libxslt-devel
Now Nokogiri compiles in Fedora and Nokogiri installs. D'oh!, we need the headers to compile Nokogiri from the devel libraries.
In Mac OS X (Mavericks) if none of these solutions work, try:
ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" gem install nokogiri
or
ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386" gem install nokogiri
depending on your system's architecture.
You usually need development files for building gems. Try:
sudo apt-get install libxslt-dev libxml2-dev
(I just saw that Eric suggested the same in a comment.)
I was able to get this installed with Chocolatey, Windows 8.1 x64, and DevKit x64.
cinst libxml2
cinst libxslt
cinst libiconv
gem install nokogiri --
--with-xml2-include=C:\Chocolatey\lib\libxml2.2.7.8.7\build\native\include
--with-xml2-lib=C:\Chocolatey\lib\libxml2.redist.2.7.8.7\build\native\bin\v110\x64\Release\dynamic\cdecl
--with-iconv-include=C:\Chocolatey\lib\libiconv.1.14.0.11\build\native\include
--with-iconv-lib=C:\Chocolatey\lib\libiconv.redist.1.14.0.11\build\native\bin\v110\x64\Release\dynamic\cdecl
--with-xslt-include=C:\Chocolatey\lib\libxslt.1.1.28.0\build\native\include
--with-xslt-lib=C:\Chocolatey\lib\libxslt.redist.1.1.28.0\build\native\bin\v110\x64\Release\dynamic
You'll have to verify the version number in the paths are correct.
You may possibly need to add Microsoft's NuGet repository:
-Source "https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=230477"
It will be:
sudo yum install -y libxml2 libxml2-devel
on RHEL servers.
At macOS none of above/below had really worked for me until I explicitly provided XCode libxml2 path to --with-xml2-include.
gem install nokogiri -- --with-xml2-include=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/libxml2 --use-system-libraries
I was able to install Nokogiri 1.6.5 on Fedora 20 by doing:
export NOKOGIRI_USE_SYSTEM_LIBRARIES=true
Then running:
gem install nokogiri
For anyone else experiencing this issue, I solved it by running this command within the project directory
gem install nokogiri -- --use-system-libraries
Update: I ran into this again and tried just updating the gem which worked for me...
gem update nokogiri
Have you tried installing libxml2? Not from rubygems, but via the standard install process for your operating system. On Ubuntu/Debian for example:
sudo apt-get install libxml2
On any recent version of OS X it should already be installed.
For OSX users, if you've had success installing Nokogiri before, yet are getting errors installing it on, say, using a new version of Ruby that you've added and that error that includes a message like:
The compiler failed to generate an executable file. (RuntimeError)
You have to install development tools first.
This could be indicative of a XCode upgrade having happened via the App Store, either manually or automatically, and you not having opened it since that time.
If so, you should be able to open XCode, agree to the new license, and then install Nokogiri successfully.
On Mac OS X Yosemite my mistake was that I tried to use sudo gem install when it's a rule of thumb to not use superuser privileges when installing gems.
In my case it tried to modify the system installation of Ruby, and that's not a good idea. I installed rbenv, installed Ruby 2.2.2 thru it and set it as global, which is a term from rbenv's documentation. After that Nokogiri could install itself with a simple
gem install nokogiri
No hacks or workarounds were necessary, just a properly set environment; Nokogiri does the rest perfectly.
Was able to install vagrant-awe by following the above post but using the command as follow:
NOKOGIRI_USE_SYSTEM_LIBRARIES=1 vagrant plugin install vagrant-aws
For Windows x64:
gem inst nokogiri --pre --platform ruby
For more information check this thread: https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/issues/864
I was able to install Nokogiri by running the following packages:
$ dnf group install "C Development Tools and Libraries"
$ dnf install ruby-devel libxml2-devel patch
=== TLDR ===
As the instructions state, build Ruby with the latest clang compiler, or at least the same version that Rubygems will use to compile Nokogiri's native extensions libxml and libxsl.
If using RVM, building from source with the --with-ggc=clang flag was what did it for me:
rvm install 2.2 --with-gcc=clang
Replace 2.2 with whatever version you want. --with-gcc=clang ensures RVM builds from source and uses clang to do so; otherwise RVM may a pre-built binary Ruby, which is what tripped me up.
Then, install Nokogiri as normal using Bundler or Rubygems.
=== IN DEPTH ===
I struggled with this for a while. gem install nokogiri gave me:
checking for xmlParseDoc() in libxml/parser.h... no
checking for xmlParseDoc() in -lxml2... no
checking for xmlParseDoc() in -llibxml2... no
Digging into mkmf.log I saw:
conftest.c:15:27: error: too few arguments to function call, single argument 'cur' was not specified
int t(void) { xmlParseDoc(); return 0; }
Nokogiri supplies its own libxml and libxsl (as of 1.6.4). The signature defined in Nokogiri's local copy of parser.h (found under the gem install directory) is:
xmlParseDoc (const xmlChar *cur);
So I was at a loss as to how the method call in the hermetically sealed conftest.c file usage couldn't match up with the header file for parser.h.
When I realized I had probably installed a binary Ruby I removed and reinstalled using --with-gcc=clang (to force compilation and use clang) and the problem was solved:
rvm uninstall 2.2
rvm install 2.2 --with-gcc=clang
gem install nokogiri
I'm not exactly sure why that works as the system libxml header /usr/include/libxml2/libxml/parser.h has the same signature as Nokogiri's local copy.
It's weird, but it worked. Just make sure you compile a Ruby with clang.
gem install nokogiri -- --with-xml2-include=/usr/local/Cellar/libxml2/2.7.8/include/libxml2 --with-xml2-lib=/usr/local/Cellar/libxml2/2.7.8/lib --with-xslt-dir=/usr/local/Cellar/libxslt/1.1.26 --with-iconv-include=/usr/local/Cellar/libiconv/1.14/include --with-iconv-lib=/usr/local/Cellar/libiconv/1.14/lib
Change your version with it.