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Philip John
Philip John

Reputation: 5555

gem install therubyracer -v '0.12.1' fails in RubyMine

When I try running the following command

gem install therubyracer -v '0.12.1'

I am getting the following error. I tried to install libv8, but was not successful then. Can someone please help me out here.

Temporarily enhancing PATH to include DevKit...
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing therubyracer:
    ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

    C:/software/ruby-1.9.3/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb
checking for main() in -lpthread... no
checking for v8.h... no
*** 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=C:/software/ruby-1.9.3/bin/ruby
    --with-pthreadlib
    --without-pthreadlib
    --enable-debug
    --disable-debug
    --with-v8-dir
    --without-v8-dir
    --with-v8-include
    --without-v8-include=${v8-dir}/include
    --with-v8-lib
    --without-v8-lib=${v8-dir}/
C:/software/ruby-1.9.3/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/libv8-  
3.16.14.3/ext/libv8/location.rb:50:in `configure': You have chosen to use   
the version of V8 found on your system 
(Libv8::Location::System::NotFoundError)
and *not* the one that is bundle with the libv8 rubygem. However,
it could not be located. please make sure you have a version of
v8 that is compatible with 3.16.14.3 installed. You may
need to special --with-v8-dir options if it is in a non-standard
location

thanks,
The Mgmt

    from C:/software/ruby-1.9.3/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/libv8-  3.16.14.3/lib/libv8.rb:7:in `configure_makefile'
    from extconf.rb:32:in `<main>'


Gem files will remain installed in C:/software/ruby-    1.9.3/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/therubyracer-0.12.1 for inspection.
Results logged to C:/software/ruby-   1.9.3/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/therubyracer-0.12.1/ext/v8/gem_make.out

I am new to ruby and therefore I am pretty confused what should be done here.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 407

Answers (1)

Aetherus
Aetherus

Reputation: 8888

You can't install therubyracer on Windows, see this post.

Since therubyracer is only one of the javascript runtimes compatible with ExecJS, you may try anothers, say node.js for example.

As long as you're developing Ruby on Rails applications, sooner or later you will have to switch to Unix or Linux, so why not now?

Upvotes: 0

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