Installing Nokogiri Fails on OS X Mavericks _ Jasdeep Singh

8/2/2014 Installing Nokogiri Fails on OS X Mavericks | Jasdeep Singh

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JasdeepSinghPassionate Ruby, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, CoffeeScript Developer based out of Toronto.

InstallingNokogiriFailsonOSXMavericksOctober 28, 2013

So, I upgraded to OS X Mavericks this weekend. The upgrade went smooth and everything had been runningextremely fine for me until today. I wanted to install the Ruby OpenGraph gem for a project I was working on. Thisgem depends on the Nokogiri Gem. However, unfortunately I was facing this issue which was failing on building ofNokogiri Native Extensions as follows.

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$ gem install nokogiriBuilding native extensions. This could take a while...ERROR: Error installing opengraph: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. /Users/jasdeep/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p448/bin/ruby extconf.rbextconf.rb:10: Use RbConfig instead of obsolete and deprecated Config.checking for libxml/parser.h... *** extconf.rb failed ***Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack ofnecessary libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for moredetails. You may need configuration options. Provided configuration options: --with-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

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After seeing this error, I was pretty much like:

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--srcdir=. --curdir --ruby=/Users/jasdeep/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p448/bin/ruby --with-zlib-dir --without-zlib-dir --with-zlib-include --without-zlib-include=${zlib-dir}/include --with-zlib-lib --without-zlib-lib=${zlib-dir}/lib --with-iconv-dir --without-iconv-dir --with-iconv-include --without-iconv-include=${iconv-dir}/include --with-iconv-lib --without-iconv-lib=${iconv-dir}/lib --with-xml2-dir --without-xml2-dir --with-xml2-include --without-xml2-include=${xml2-dir}/include --with-xml2-lib --without-xml2-lib=${xml2-dir}/lib --with-xslt-dir --without-xslt-dir --with-xslt-include --without-xslt-include=${xslt-dir}/include --with-xslt-lib --without-xslt-lib=${xslt-dir}/lib/Users/jasdeep/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p448/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:381:in `try_do': The compiler failed to generate an executable file. (RuntimeError)You have to install development tools first. from /Users/jasdeep/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p448/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:506:in `try_cpp' from /Users/jasdeep/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p448/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:970:in `block from /Users/jasdeep/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p448/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:790:in `block in checking_for' from /Users/jasdeep/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p448/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:284:in `block from /Users/jasdeep/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p448/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:254:in `open' from /Users/jasdeep/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p448/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:284:in `block from /Users/jasdeep/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p448/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:254:in `open' from /Users/jasdeep/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p448/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:280:in `postpone from /Users/jasdeep/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p448/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:789:in `checking_for' from /Users/jasdeep/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p448/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:969:in `find_header from extconf.rb:96:in `' Gem files will remain installed in /Users/jasdeep/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p448/gems/nokogiriResults logged to /Users/jasdeep/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p448/gems/nokogiri-1.4.7/ext/nokogiri



So, i checked the gem_make.out where the errors were logged and figured my comman line developer tools in thisnew version of OS X were pooched/missing. There is a command line tool available called xcode-select which isused to switch between different versions of XCode and Xcode in this new version of OS X comes with an update(Version 5.0.1). This little tool can be used to install the latest command line developer tools.

This command did it for me:

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After downloading and installing the new Command Line Developer Tools:

If this didnt worked for you, a couple people reported that their gcc was missing. Consider following this StackOverflow question if thats the case: http://stackoverflow.com/a/19643909/472869

PS: I had a few warnings after installing the gem which Ive left out for brevity sake. These were just some encodingwarnings Nothing serious. Im hoping there wont be any major issues with Nokogiri on Mavericks.

Jasdeep Singh

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sally 3 months agoI would reach through the internet and hug you if i could. I have been fighting with this forso long! Thank you so much for posting this!

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$ gem install nokogiriBuilding native extensions. This could take a while...Successfully installed nokogiri-1.6.0Installing ri documentation for nokogiri-1.6.01 gem installed$



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Rob Park 6 months agoWorked for me too. Thanks!

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Rafael Rosa 2 months agoThanks, it worked :)

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narangjasdeep 2 months agoMod Rafael Rosaglad it helped. Thanks!

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grimmdude 4 months agoThanks man, exactly what I was looking for!

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narangjasdeep 2 months agoMod grimmdudesorry for the late reply, but glad this was helpful!

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spencer owen 4 months agoUnfortunately it didn't work for me because of this http://stackoverflow.com/quest...

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narangjasdeep 2 months agoMod spencer owenthanks for posting this link to SO, I hope it turns out to be helpful for others.

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Gourav Tiwari 5 months agothis worked! thanks for sharing!

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mgryszko 6 months agoThanks for the tip - it worked like a charm!

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narangjasdeep 2 months agoMod mgryszkoglad I could be helpful. keep coding! ;)

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kennygorman 14 hours agoThx!!! helped a ton.

Jeff Kibuule 3 days agoSUCCESS!

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Alex 5 days agoThank you sir!

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yinghau76 7 days agoYou save my day. Thank you!

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erwin 13 days agounfortunatly, new major issues with Nokogiri on Mavericks.... seems to be the case witheach new XCode release now ...

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Guest a month agothis worked, after struggling with the nokogiri install

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Arpan J a month agoThis worked! Was trying to solve this for a while. Thanks much!!

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wanlin brian a month agoThanks a lot!

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Alex Jahraus 2 months agoThanks a lot! Installing XCode CL tools fixed this for me, however, I was unable to installthem using `xcode-select --install`, had to download the DMG from Apple:http://adcdownload.apple.com/D...

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Chandler Roth 2 months agoI could hug you. Worked like a dream. Thanks.

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Joel 3 months ago"Can't install the software because it is not currently available from the Software Updateserver." See this message consistently.

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narangjasdeep 2 months agoMod JoelUnsure what's going on. At what step do you get this?

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Bryan Shanaver 8 months agoThanks for posting - worked for me too

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RamiJames 8 months agoThank you for posting this answer!

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Nathan Bashaw 9 months agoThank you soooo much!!!!

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Amicushq.com 9 months agoThis was amazing! Thank you so much!!

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narangjasdeep 9 months agoMod Amicushq.comGlad it helped.

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