Installing therubyracer on Mac OS and Ruby

Wajeeh Ahsan
2 min readSep 29, 2020

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I tried installing rubyracer on Mac and gone through all this.

11:53  $ gem install libv8 -v '3.16.14.3' -- --with-system-v8


Building native extensions with: '--with-system-v8'
This could take a while...
Successfully installed libv8-3.16.14.3
Parsing documentation for libv8-3.16.14.3
Installing ri documentation for libv8-3.16.14.3
Done installing documentation for libv8 after 0 seconds
1 gem installed


02:05 $ gem install therubyracer -v '0.12.1' -- --with-system-v8


Building native extensions with: '--with-system-v8'
This could take a while...
ERROR: Error installing therubyracer:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

/usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.1.2/bin/ruby extconf.rb --with-system-v8
checking for main() in -lpthread... yes
checking for main() in -lobjc... yes
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=/usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.1.2/bin/ruby
--with-pthreadlib
--without-pthreadlib
--with-objclib
--without-objclib
--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}/lib
/usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.1.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/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 /usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.1.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/libv8-3.16.14.3/lib/libv8.rb:7:in `configure_makefile'
from extconf.rb:32:in `'

extconf failed, exit code 1

Gem files will remain installed in /usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.1.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/therubyracer-0.12.1 for inspection.
Results logged to /usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.1.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/extensions/x86_64-darwin-14/2.1.0-static/therubyracer-0.12.1/gem_make.out

The following commands helped getting out of this error.

brew tap homebrew/versions
brew install v8-315

gem install libv8 -v '3.16.14.13' -- --with-system-v8
gem install therubyracer -- --with-v8-dir=/usr/local/opt/v8-315

bundle install

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Wajeeh Ahsan
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