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Trevor Pierce

Failure to compile Red Cloth on OS X 10.6.8 (Makefile error)

Reported by Trevor Pierce | November 19th, 2011 @ 08:14 PM

I've just pulled down Octopress to my local machine, but when I try to run bundle install, I get a make error. I'm running version 3.2 of Xcode--do I need to update to 4.x from the Apple Developer site?

Here's the output when I try to run sudo gem install RedCloth:

Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR: Error installing RedCloth:

ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

    /Users/user/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p180/bin/ruby extconf.rb

checking for main() in -lc... 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
--without-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
--srcdir=.
--curdir
--ruby=/Users/user/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p180/bin/ruby
--with-redcloth_scan-dir
--without-redcloth_scan-dir
--with-redcloth_scan-include
--without-redcloth_scan-include=${redcloth_scan-dir}/include
--with-redcloth_scan-lib
--without-redcloth_scan-lib=${redcloth_scan-dir}/lib
--with-clib
--without-clib

/Users/user/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p180/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:368:in `try_do': The complier failed to generate an executable file. (RuntimeError) You have to install development tools first.

from /Users/user/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p180/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:435:in `try_link0'
from /Users/user/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p180/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:440:in `try_link'
from /Users/user/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p180/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:552:in `try_func'
from /Users/user/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p180/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:748:in `block in have_library'
from /Users/user/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p180/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:693:in `block in checking_for'
from /Users/user/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p180/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:280:in `block (2 levels) in postpone'
from /Users/user/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p180/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:254:in `open'
from /Users/user/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p180/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:280:in `block in postpone'
from /Users/user/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p180/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:254:in `open'
from /Users/user/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p180/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:276:in `postpone'
from /Users/user/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p180/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:692:in `checking_for'
from /Users/user/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p180/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:743:in `have_library'
from extconf.rb:5:in `<main>'

Gem files will remain installed in /Users/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/RedCloth-4.2.8 for inspection.
Results logged to /Users/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180/gems/RedCloth-4.2.8/ext/redcloth_scan/gem_make.out

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