I am using Fedora 14 and I have MySQL and MySQL server 5.1.42 installed and running. Now I tried to do this as root user:
gem install mysql
But I get this error:
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR: Error installing mysql:
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/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.8.1 for inspection.
Results logged to /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.8.1/ext/mysql_api/gem_make.out
What's wrong here? In installed ruby 1.8.7. and the latest rubygems 1.3.7.
This post helped me. Thanks a lot.
On Linux (Ubuntu 12.10) I needed to run
sudo apt-get install ruby
sudo apt-get install rubygems
sudo apt-get install ruby-dev
before I could succesfully run
sudo gem install jekyll
You might have messed up with the RVM.
Try to do:
\curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --rails
Red Hat, Fedora:
yum -y install gcc mysql-devel ruby-devel rubygems
gem install -y mysql -- --with-mysql-config=/usr/bin/mysql_config
Debian, Ubuntu:
apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev ruby-dev
gem install mysql
Arch Linux:
pacman -S libmariadbclient
gem install mysql
in openSUSE:
zypper in ruby-devel
Works to me :)
I found the solution here.
# yum install mysql-devel gcc make
# gem install mysql -- --with-mysql-config=/usr/bin/mysql_config
Red Hat, Fedora:
sudo dnf -y install gcc-c++ redhat-rpm-config ruby-devel gcc mysql-devel rubygems
It's necessary to install redhat-rpm-config to. I guess it solve your problem!
My initial solution was to resolve the above errors by installing ruby-devel, patch and rubygems.
My issue was a bit different as bcrypt 3.1.11 still had issues compiling and installing on Fedora 23. I needed additional packages. So after ensuring I had the above installed, I was still having issues:
gcc: error: conftest.c: No such file or directory
gcc: error: /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1: No such file or directory
From here I had to do the following:
I ensured that I wasn't lacking any C compiler tools sudo dnf group install "C Development Tools and Libraries"
Then I ran sudo dnf install redhat-rpm-config to resolve the gcc issue listed above.
You can find a write up here on Fedore Project. You may also find answers to other needs as well.
sudo apt-get install ruby-dev
This command solved the problem for me!
You need following packages instaled:
ruby-dev
gcc
libffi-dev
make
Here's the command for debian distro:
sudo apt install gcc ruby-dev rubygems libgmp-dev libgmp3-dev make
For anyone reading this in 2015: if you happened to install the package ruby2.0, you need to install the matching ruby2.0-dev to get the appropriate Ruby headers. The same goes for ruby2.1 and ruby2.2, etc. For example:
$ sudo apt-get install ruby2.2-dev
MAC users may face this issue when xcode tools are not installed properly. Below is the command to get rid of the issue.
xcode-select --install
This worked for me:
yum -y install gcc mysql-devel ruby-devel rubygems
For those that are still experiencing problems, like I have(I am using Ubuntu 16.04), I had to put in the following commands in order to get some gems like bcrypt, pg, and others installed. They are all similar to the ones above except for one.
sudo apt-get install ruby-dev -y
sudo apt-get install libpq-dev -y
sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev
sudo apt-get install build-essential patch -y
This allowed me to install gems like, PG, bcrypt, and recaptcha.
If you have gem installed and ruby and not able to install rails, then install ruby dev lib.
sudo apt-get install ruby-dev
It works for me. I have tried the different solution.
Just to add path to ruby.h file in my PATH
for example:
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/src/ruby-xxxxxx
it seems that the
yum install ruby-devel
was enough for me to perform
gem install datamapper
afterwards.
It's possible that you will need to install another packages:
yum install gcc gcc-c++
to be able to build native extensions
Source: Stackoverflow.com