ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension on Mavericks

Question

I\'m attempting to run bundle in my Rails project on OSX 10.9. It fails when getting to the pg gem with this error:

Gem::Installer:         


        

Answer 1

this worked for me with Mavericks and the Postgresapp:

gem install pg -v '0.17.0' -- --with-pg-config=/Applications/Postgres93.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/pg_config

Answer 2

For me using Mavericks, Rails 3.2.13, Ruby 2.0.0-p247, PostgreSQL 9.1, I needed todo this:

gem install pg -v '0.15.1' -- --with-pg-config=/Library/PostgreSQL/9.1/bin/pg_config

Answer 3

For me it worked when I did:

brew install postgresql

Answer 4

This worked for me on Mac OS X 10.9.3 and Postgres.app version 9.3.4.2:

1) Install Postgres.app

2) bundle config build.pg --with-pg-config=/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/9.3/bin/pg_config

3) gem install pg -v '0.17.1'

4) bundle install

Answer 5

Try using the --with-pg-config argument:

bundle config build.pg --with-pg-config=/usr/pgsql-9.1/bin/pg_config

To show the path of the pg_config:

which pg_config

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For Ubuntu users:

sudo apt-get install postgresql
sudo apt-get install libpq-dev

Then:

bundle install

Answer 6

Also make sure that you've upgraded Xcode to re-install command line tools on Mavericks. In terminal type:

xcode-select --install

Then follow the prompts.