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Impossible to install Nokogiri - OSX Mojave 10.14.2

cbellorini asked in Gems / Libraries

Hey Everyone,
Since the recent update (10.14.2) Nokogiri gem cannot be installed in my app.

When I run bundle install , I get the following error:

./siteconf20190109-70456-1diyett.rb extconf.rb --use-system-libraries
checking if the C compiler accepts -march=core2 -mtune=haswell -mssse3 -ftree-vectorize -fPIC -fPIE
-fstack-protector-strong -O2 -pipe... yes
checking if the C compiler accepts -Wno-error=unused-command-line-argument-hard-error-in-future...
no
Building nokogiri using system libraries.
Using pkg-config gem version 1.3.2
checking for libxml-2.0... yes
checking for libxslt... yes
checking for libexslt... yes
checking for xmlParseDoc() in libxml/parser.h... no
checking for xmlParseDoc() in -lxml2... no
checking for xmlParseDoc() in -llibxml2... no
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libxml2 is missing.  Please locate mkmf.log to investigate how it is failing.
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*** 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.

I went to the nokigiri installation tutorial, but their solution does not work.

Do you have any idea to solve this problem?

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It says libxml2 is missing. so you might have just missed installing that dependency.

That's a simple brew install libxml2 to fix. 👍

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I already install libxml2 but after having installed it the error is the same.

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I'm still on High Sierra for my main computer, but let me open up Macbook which I upgraded.

My guess is that it's simply looking in the wrong folder still.

Did you try this line I had in the guide?

sudo installer -pkg /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Packages/macOS_SDK_headers_for_macOS_10.14.pkg -target /

I noticed that the Nokogiri docs had a slightly different one.

open /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Packages/macOS_SDK_headers_for_macOS_10.14.pkg
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Yes, I tried your line from the guide.
then I ran gem install nokogiri
I got a another error:

RROR:  Error installing nokogiri:
    ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

    current directory: /Users/charbell/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.4/gems/nokogiri-1.10.0/ext/nokogiri
/Users/charbell/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.4.4/bin/ruby -I /Users/charlesbellorini/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.4.4/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.4.0 -r ./siteconf20190109-76119-6rjiq6.rb extconf.rb
checking if the C compiler accepts -march=core2 -mtune=haswell -mssse3 -ftree-vectorize -fPIC -fPIE -fstack-protector-strong -O2 -pipe... yes
checking if the C compiler accepts -Wno-error=unused-command-line-argument-hard-error-in-future... no
Building nokogiri using packaged libraries.
Using mini_portile version 2.4.0
checking for iconv.h... yes
checking for gzdopen() in -lz... no
zlib is missing; necessary for building libxml2
*** 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.

Thank you very much for your help.

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Getting closer it sounds like.

Try this and see if that helps.

gem install nokogiri -- --use-system-libraries --with-iconv-dir=$(brew --prefix libiconv) --with-xml2-include=$(brew --prefix libxml2)/include/libxml2

Alternatively, this one does the seame thing but doesn't use the libraries from homebrew in case the above fails:

gem install nokogiri -- --use-system-libraries=true --with-xml2-include="$(xcrun --show-sdk-path)"/usr/include/libxml2

According to Nokogiri's issues, they might have a fix coming out at some point soon so you won't have to do these workarounds. https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/pull/1851

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Both of them does not work. it comes with the same error : libxml2 is missing. Please locate mkmf.log to investigate how it is failing.

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Still having this error in 1.10.7 in 2020, any update on potential resolution?

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try this:

bundle config build.nokogiri --use-system-libraries
bundle install
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brew install libxml2
bundle config build.nokogiri --use-system-libraries --with-xml2-include=/usr/include/libxml2/

I have this in my notes and I got the answer on Stackoverflow.

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it's really enlightening

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