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Lynob
Lynob

Reputation: 5327

ruby on rails could not find ffi

i see this often when working with mysql or mysql2, i tried to install ffi but it makes no difference, could you please help solving this issue

i tried gem install ffi, bundle install ffi i tried many stuff, just would not work! when do rake db:create i will see the error, i have the latest rails installer if i use ruby installer instead, i'll get many other errors like: you need the dev toolkit to build this gem and i install the toolkit and still the the error therefore i prefer to stick with rails installer,

EDIT:

lets say i typed bundle install mysql i see the error: make sure that ffi installation succeeds before you continue or something like that, the thing is, if i don't solve ffi error i'll be stuck with sqlite, because i bet that mongodb, couchdb, mysql, mysql2, postgeres, whatever... all need ffi, i don't know what ffi is but it's seems to be very important thing

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1828

Answers (1)

Delameko
Delameko

Reputation: 2584

I've never had an issue with ffi myself (in fact I hadn't even heard of it before your post), although I did have bizarre gem issues when working on Windows.

Your problem seems to be this:

C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/Desktop/ror/selvista/mysql2/ruby/1.9.1/gems/ffi-1.0.11

In particular, there's a line in your error code:

configure: WARNING: Libtool does not cope well with whitespace in 'pwd'

I think you need to move your ror folder somewhere else, like C:\ror, something without spaces in it.

If you look higher up:

Makefile:160: warning: overriding commands for target 'C:/Documents'

It thinks your folder is just C:/Documents

Upvotes: 1

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