Installing PG gem on OS X - failure to build native extension
Same error for me and I didn't experience it until I downloaded OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Sigh, another OS upgrade headache.
Here's how I fixed it (with homebrew):
- Install another build of Xcode Tools (typing
brew update
in the terminal will prompt you to update the Xcode build tools) brew update
brew install postgresql
After that gem install pg
worked for me.
If you are using Ubuntu try to install following lib file
sudo apt-get install libpq-dev
and then
gem install pg
worked for me.
I am using OS X Mavericks (version 10.9)
and when I run the above I got the following message: If builds of PostgreSQL 9 are failing and you have version 8.x installed.
So I run the following command:
ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" gem install pg
and this worked for me, I hope this helps someone :)