Introduction
After spending hours of searching different solutions on the internet for installing older version of ruby (2.5.x, 2.6.x etc ) on Mac M1, I finally figured out the solution and decided to document it by writing a blog.
Pre-Requirements
Make sure you have following installed on your Mac M1
- Update your Mac OS
- Homebrew
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
- rbenv (Should work for rvm also)
brew install rbenv
- Make sure that you have latest xcode command line tools
xcode-select --install
if the above fails, then:
sudo rm -rf /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools
xcode-select --install
Steps to Reproduce The Problem
The problem occurs if you try to install an older version with Ruby.
rbenv install 2.6.2
Error:
- BUILD FAILED (macOS 12.1 using ruby-build 20210707)
- Inspect or clean up the working tree at `/var/folders/.....`
Solution
Try installing the ruby version with this variable RUBY_CFLAGS="-Wno-error=implicit-function-declaration"
RUBY_CFLAGS="-Wno-error=implicit-function-declaration" rbenv install 2.6.2
This should work fine!
Other Installations
After this, install other dependencies normally using brew. For eg: postgresql I installed postgresql@10 which was required for the project.
brew install postgresql@10
The end of success clearly states that you have to do some entries in your bash/zsh file
If you need to have postgresql@10 first in your PATH, run:
echo 'export PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/postgresql@10/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc
For compilers to find postgresql@10 you may need to set:
export LDFLAGS="-L/opt/homebrew/opt/postgresql@10/lib"
export CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/homebrew/opt/postgresql@10/include"
For pkg-config to find postgresql@10 you may need to set:
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/postgresql@10/lib/pkgconfig"
To restart postgresql@10 after an upgrade:
brew services restart postgresql@10
Or, if you don't want/need a background service you can just run:
/opt/homebrew/opt/postgresql@10/bin/postgres -D /opt/homebrew/var/postgresql@10
Do these changes and then go to your project and set the ruby version for the project:
rbenv local 2.6.2
Check if the ruby version is correct:
ruby -v # should output whatever version you had set in the previous step.
The next step is to install the bundle
bundle install
During the installation, I got an error while installing http-parser. The error message looked like this:
Caused by:
LoadError: cannot load such file -- 2.6/ffi_c
Caused by:
LoadError: cannot load such file -- ffi-compiler/compile_task
(See full trace by running task with --trace)
rake failed, exit code 1
Gem files will remain installed in /Users/Dollar/.rbenv/versions/2.6.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/http-parser-1.2.3 for inspection.
Results logged to /Users/Dollar/.rbenv/versions/2.6.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/extensions/-darwin-21/2.6.0/http-parser-1.2.3/gem_make.out
An error occurred while installing http-parser (1.2.3), and Bundler cannot continue.
Make sure that `gem install http-parser -v '1.2.3' --source 'https://rubygems.org/'` succeeds before bundling.
In Gemfile:
elastic-apm was resolved to 3.15.1, which depends on
http was resolved to 4.4.1, which depends on
http-parser
The error message clearly states that the reason
LoadError: cannot load such file -- ffi-compiler/compile_task
I rectified the problem through installing ffi compiler for ruby platform using the following command:
gem install ffi --platform=ruby
Now, try running
bundle install
Conclusion
Things should work now! Feel free to drop a suggestion or any feedback if this process can be further improved.
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