Failure to install nokogiri libiconv is missing on Yosemite Mac OS X 10.10
Trying to install Nokogiri I’m getting the following error
Maxims-MacBook-Air:ScrapingTheApple maximveksler$ gem install nokogiri
Fetching: nokogiri-1.6.2.1.gem (100%)
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
Building nokogiri using packaged libraries.
ERROR: Error installing nokogiri:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
/Users/maximveksler/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.1.2/bin/ruby extconf.rb
Building nokogiri using packaged libraries.
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libiconv is missing. please visit http://nokogiri.org/tutorials/installing_nokogiri.html for help with installing dependencies.
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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.
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=/Users/maximveksler/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.1.2/bin/ruby
--help
--clean
--use-system-libraries
--enable-static
--disable-static
--with-zlib-dir
--without-zlib-dir
--with-zlib-include
--without-zlib-include=${zlib-dir}/include
--with-zlib-lib
--without-zlib-lib=${zlib-dir}/lib
--enable-cross-build
--disable-cross-build
extconf failed, exit code 1
Gem files will remain installed in /Users/maximveksler/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/nokogiri-1.6.2.1 for inspection.
Results logged to /Users/maximveksler/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/extensions/x86_64-darwin-13/2.1.0-static/nokogiri-1.6.2.1/gem_make.out
Answer
The nokogiri install tutorial provides the solution:
# bash
brew unlink gcc
gem uninstall nokogiri
xcode-select --install
gem install nokogiri
If you don't have Xcode 6.1, yet, you may install it from the apple developer download site (section additional tools), as described in this blog post.