Hi guys,
I am having some problems when trying to install mysql2 gem for Rails 3. When I try to install it by issuing "bundle install" command or "gem install mysql2" it gives me following error "Error installing mysql2: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension." Did anyone have any luck with this?
Thanks!
Have you tried using
gem install mysql -- --with-mysql-lib=/usr/lib/mysql/lib
to specify the location of thebase directory as well as the path to the MySQL libraries that are necessary to complete the gem installation?
Sources: MySQL Gem Install ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension MySQL Forums :: Ruby :: Help needed with installing MySQL binding for Ruby
Following line solved the issue:
sudo apt-get install libmysql-ruby libmysqlclient-dev
I was running into this error on my mac and found that I needed to upgrade from mysql 32bit to mysql 64 bit to get this error to go away. I was running OSX 10.6 on an intel macbook pro with ruby 1.9.2 and rails3.0.0
I also needed to install xcode in order to get unix utilities like "make" that are required to compile the gem.
once this was done I was able to run gem install mysql and gem install mysql2 without error.
I got this error too. Solved by installing development packages. I'm using arch and it was:
sudo pacman -S base-devel
which installed:
m4, autoconf, automake, bison, fakeroot, flex, libmpc, ppl, cloog-ppl, elfutils, gcc,
libtool, make, patch, pkg-config
but I think it actually needed make and gcc. Error output said (on my machine, among other):
"You have to install development tools first."
So it was an obvious decision and it helped.