Thanks William Morgan! That was the tip I needed. I had a stock install of Mac OS X Tiger, without developer tools installed. When I did the "gem install ferret" I ignored the message that gcc and make could not be found. RubyGems gave the message that ferret was installed despite the fact that the C extensions were not compiled and installed. So I got the error "no such file to load -- ferret_ext" when I tried to run ferret. Here's what I did to get ferret to work:
Found my Mac OS X Tiger install disk and opened the Xcode Tools folder. Clicked on the XcodeTools.mpkg. Started the install process and stopped before I clicked the "Upgrade" button. Instead clicked the "Customize" button and selected only "gcc 4.0" and the Software Development Kits "Mac OS X SDK" and "BSD SDK" (I'm not developing Mac apps so didn't want to crowd my disk with extra stuff I won't use). Then clicked "Upgrade." What you need gets installed as /usr/bin/gcc plus lots more in /usr/include. Now you can install ferret and it will compile the C extensions. First I removed the broken ferret I installed earlier: $ gem uninstall ferret I checked that I had gcc: $ which gcc /usr/bin/gcc If you can't find it, check your bash shell path environment with: $ env You should have something like "/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin" I checked for the SDK libraries: $ cd /usr/include $ ls -lag (should show lots of ".h" header files) Then back to my development directory and ran: $ sudo gem install ferret Select which gem to install for your platform (powerpc-darwin7.9.0) 1. ferret 0.10.13 (ruby) ... Building native extensions. This could take a while... ruby extconf.rb install ferret creating Makefile ... (lots of make cruft) make install ... make clean Successfully installed ferret-0.10.13 Installing ri documentation for ferret-0.10.13... Installing RDoc documentation for ferret-0.10.13... You can test ferret with this Ruby code in a file "ferret_test.rb" require 'rubygems' require 'ferret' include Ferret puts "ferret works!" Try it with: $ ruby ferret_test.rb ferret works! I hope this helps someone else who might be in a similar situation, especially if they are googling for "no such file to load -- ferret_ext" or "Mac OS X gem install ferret" or even "installing gcc on mac os x". -- Daniel -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
