Install TinyTDS Gem on OSX 10.10 Yosemite
with tags ruby rails -There are a couple of howtos out there on how to fix the dreaded ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. when running gem install tiny_tds
.
This one will fix it without having to force link libiconv
which is not a good thing to do.
Prerequisites
First you want to make sure that you have freetds
and libiconv
installed in Homebrew. I already had these installed so YMMV on this step:
brew install libiconv
brew install freetds
It is normal for libiconv
to complain that it is keg only, that is the whole point.
Install tiny_tds
Now it is just a simply matter of telling gem install
where libiconv
and freetds
are located.
$ gem install tiny_tds -- --with-iconv-dir=$(brew --prefix libiconv) \
--with-freetds-dir=$(brew --prefix freetds)
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
Successfully installed tiny_tds-0.6.2
1 gem installed
IMPORTANT: Do not forget the double hyphen (--
) between the gem install
command and the options.