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

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InstallingNokogiriFailsonOSXMavericks

October 28, 2013

So, I upgraded to OS X Mavericks this weekend. The upgrade went smooth and everything had been running
extremely fine for me until today. I wanted to install the Ruby OpenGraph gem for a project I was working on. This
gem depends on the Nokogiri Gem. However, unfortunately I was facing this issue which was failing on building of
Nokogiri Native Extensions as follows.
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$ gem install nokogiri
Building 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.rb
extconf.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 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
--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 `<main>'

Gem files will remain installed in /Users/jasdeep/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p448/gems/nokogiri
Results logged to /Users/jasdeep/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p448/gems/nokogiri-1.4.7/ext/nokogiri
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So, i checked the gem_make.out where the errors were logged and figured my comman line developer tools in this
new version of OS X were pooched/missing. There is a command line tool available called xcode-select which is
used 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:
1 $ xcode-select --install
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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 Stack
Overflow 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 encoding
warnings Nothing serious. Im hoping there wont be any major issues with Nokogiri on Mavericks.
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sally 3 months ago
I would reach through the internet and hug you if i could. I have been fighting with this for
so long! Thank you so much for posting this!

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$ gem install nokogiri
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
Successfully installed nokogiri-1.6.0
Installing ri documentation for nokogiri-1.6.0
1 gem installed
$
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Rob Park 6 months ago
Worked for me too. Thanks!

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Rafael Rosa 2 months ago
Thanks, it worked :)

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narangjasdeep 2 months ago Mod Rafael Rosa
glad it helped. Thanks!


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

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narangjasdeep 2 months ago Mod grimmdude
sorry for the late reply, but glad this was helpful!


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

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narangjasdeep 2 months ago Mod spencer owen
thanks for posting this link to SO, I hope it turns out to be helpful for others.


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Gourav Tiwari 5 months ago
this worked! thanks for sharing!

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

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narangjasdeep 2 months ago Mod mgryszko
glad I could be helpful. keep coding! ;)


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kennygorman 14 hours ago
Thx!!! helped a ton.


Jeff Kibuule 3 days ago
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Alex 5 days ago
Thank you sir!


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yinghau76 7 days ago
You save my day. Thank you!


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


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Guest a month ago
this worked, after struggling with the nokogiri install


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


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wanlin brian a month ago
Thanks a lot!


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


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Chandler Roth 2 months ago
I 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 Update
server." See this message consistently.


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narangjasdeep 2 months ago Mod Joel
Unsure what's going on. At what step do you get this?


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Bryan Shanaver 8 months ago
Thanks for posting - worked for me too


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RamiJames 8 months ago
Thank you for posting this answer!


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Nathan Bashaw 9 months ago
Thank you soooo much!!!!


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


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narangjasdeep 9 months ago Mod Amicushq.com
Glad it helped.


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