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Reputation: 2357

Ruby JSON gem install error: Ruby 2.4.1, JSON 1.8.6 (Windows 10)

Running gem install json and receiving the following error

Fetching: json-1.8.6.gem (100%)
Temporarily enhancing PATH for MSYS/MINGW...
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
      1 [main] make 8392 child_info_fork::abort: C:\msys32\usr\bin\msys-intl-8.dll: Loaded to different address: parent(0x30000) != child(0x20000)
      1 [main] make 332 child_info_fork::abort: C:\msys32\usr\bin\msys-intl-8.dll: Loaded to different address: parent(0x20000) != child(0x30000)
ERROR:  Error installing json:
        ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

    current directory: C:/Ruby24-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.4.0/gems/json-1.8.6/ext/json/ext/generator
C:/Ruby24-x64/bin/ruby.exe -r ./siteconf20170904-8096-t8xlbq.rb extconf.rb
creating Makefile

current directory: C:/Ruby24-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.4.0/gems/json-1.8.6/ext/json/ext/generator
make "DESTDIR=" clean
      1 [main] make 8392 child_info_fork::abort: C:\msys32\usr\bin\msys-intl-8.dll: Loaded to different address: parent(0x30000) != child(0x20000)
make: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

current directory: C:/Ruby24-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.4.0/gems/json-1.8.6/ext/json/ext/generator
make "DESTDIR="
generating generator-x64-mingw32.def
      1 [main] make 332 child_info_fork::abort: C:\msys32\usr\bin\msys-intl-8.dll: Loaded to different address: parent(0x20000) != child(0x30000)
make: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

make failed, exit code 2

Gem files will remain installed in C:/Ruby24-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.4.0/gems/json-1.8.6 for inspection.
Results logged to C:/Ruby24-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.4.0/extensions/x64-mingw32/2.4.0/json-1.8.6/gem_make.out

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Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3177

Answers (1)

anothermh
anothermh

Reputation: 10564

Ruby 2.4 relies on json >= 2.0 and you are attempting to install json 1.8.6. They are incompatible. Ensure the two versions are compatible then retry your operation.

Upvotes: 3

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