How to enable C extension support in jRuby?

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ada91 picture ada91 · Apr 3, 2013 · Viewed 12.6k times · Source

I want to install a gem but I get the following error:

Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing twitter-login:
        ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

        C:/nwcloud/jruby-1.7.2/bin/jruby.exe extconf.rb
NotImplementedError: C extension support is not enabled. Pass -Xcext.enabled=true to JRuby or set JRUBY_OPTS or modify .jrubyrc to enable.

I also read this question with the same problem, but I don't even know how to enable the support with the three options because I don't know how to pass -Xcext.enabled=true to JRuby or set JRUBY_OPTS or modify .jrubyrc to enable.

Can anybody help me with my beginner problem?

Answer

internetoutfitters picture internetoutfitters · Aug 1, 2013

.jrubyrc edits suggested by Rodrigo didn't work for me (jdk 7u25 / JRuby 1.7.4), but exporting the JRUBY_OPTS did do the trick:

export JRUBY_OPTS="--1.9 -Xcext.enabled=true"

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