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Reputation: 11

Error installing gem `pg` on OSX 10.9.5 with Xcode 6.0.1

Problems running bundle install and rails s will not load properly...have tried everything I could find on old Stackoverflow posts on similar issues to no avail.. error below.

Gem::Ext::BuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

    /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/bin/ruby -r ./siteconf20140930-556-1w549j8.rb extconf.rb
checking for pg_config... no
No pg_config... trying anyway. If building fails, please try again with
 --with-pg-config=/path/to/pg_config
checking for libpq-fe.h... no
Can't find the 'libpq-fe.h header
*** 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=/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/bin/ruby
        --with-pg
        --without-pg
        --with-pg-config
        --without-pg-config
        --with-pg_config
        --without-pg_config
        --with-pg-dir
        --without-pg-dir
        --with-pg-include
        --without-pg-include=${pg-dir}/include
        --with-pg-lib
        --without-pg-lib=${pg-dir}/

extconf failed, exit code 1

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 166

Answers (1)

Max
Max

Reputation: 15955

The problem is that you don't have pg installed. The first step is to install Postgres.

Do that here: http://postgresapp.com/

Next step is to install the pg gem with the required config files. Do that like this:

gem install pg -- --with-pg-config=/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/9.3/bin/pg_config

You might have to change the path a bit to point to the right place.

Upvotes: 1

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