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Henry Shu
Henry Shu

Reputation: 11

ruby gem nokogiri version 1.12.5 install error: 'gumbo.h' file not found

I tried changing the gemfile to use a newer version of nokogiri as well as resolve dependencies by brew installing libxml2 and libslt, but nothing worked. Here is the error message:

gumbo.c:32:10: fatal error: 'gumbo.h' file not found
#include "gumbo.h"
         ^~~~~~~~~
1 warning and 1 error generated.
make: *** [gumbo.o] Error 1

Upvotes: 1

Views: 870

Answers (3)

Gent
Gent

Reputation: 6425

The solution for me on my M1 Macbook was by using rbenv but first:

  1. Uninstall bundler: gem uninstall bundler
  2. Uninstall rbenv: rbenv uninstall YourRubyVersion and then brew uninstall rbenv

(YourRubyVersion you can find it by executing ruby -v)

  1. Delete the Gemfile.lock file.

After that:

brew install rbenv

rbenv install RubyVersion

rbenv init

rbenv global RubyVersion

bundle install

Upvotes: 0

Eadz
Eadz

Reputation: 1433

I had a similar problem. After reading the nokogiri installation instructions, I learned something!

Nokogiri provides precompiled binaries for most things. Now if you switch from Mac to Linux or vice versa, your Gemfile.lock may have a platform list which doesn't include your current platform.

The command that fixed it for me was

bundle lock --add-platform arm64-darwin

Then, bundle just downloaded the precompiled version.

My recommendation is to work out how to install the precompiled version for your platform. When I ran gem install nokogiri that is what happened, but because of the platform list in the Gemfile.lock it wasn't doing that and instead wanted to compile it.

Upvotes: 1

largelawofstrongnumbers
largelawofstrongnumbers

Reputation: 43

I had the same issue. Not a satisfying answer, but I uninstalled everything and did a clean install using rbenv and it worked.

Upvotes: 1

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