Gem install sqlite3-ruby

Ruby
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Hi –

I’m trying to set up Rails with sqlite on a raw Debian box. Rails is
fine, but I’m having problems with sqlite. Actually, sqlite is fine, but
the sqlite3-ruby bindings are problematic. I /suspect/ that this box
doesn’t have some important development tools (I had to install gcc and
make manually), but I don’t know what else I’m missing…

Here’s the output I’m getting now:

$ sudo gem install sqlite3-ruby
Attempting local installation of ‘sqlite3-ruby’
Local gem file not found: sqlite3-ruby*.gem
Attempting remote installation of ‘sqlite3-ruby’
Select which gem to install for your platform (i486-linux)

  1. sqlite3-ruby 1.1.0 (mswin32)
  2. sqlite3-ruby 1.1.0 (ruby)
  3. sqlite3-ruby 1.0.1 (ruby)
  4. sqlite3-ruby 1.0.1 (mswin32)
  5. sqlite3-ruby 1.0.0 (mswin32)
  6. sqlite3-ruby 1.0.0 (ruby)
  7. sqlite3-ruby 0.9.0 (ruby)
  8. sqlite3-ruby 0.9.0 (mswin32)
  9. sqlite3-ruby 0.6.0 (ruby)
  10. sqlite3-ruby 0.5.0 (ruby)
  11. Cancel installation

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Building native extensions. This could take a while…
*** extconf.rb failed ***
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of
necessary libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more
details. You may need configuration options.

Provided configuration options:
–with-opt-dir
–without-opt-dir
–with-opt-include
–without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
–with-opt-lib
–without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
–with-make-prog
–without-make-prog
–srcdir=.
–curdir
–ruby=/usr/bin/ruby1.8
–with-sqlite3-dir
–without-sqlite3-dir
–with-sqlite3-include
–without-sqlite3-include=${sqlite3-dir}/include
–with-sqlite3-lib
–without-sqlite3-lib=${sqlite3-dir}/lib
–with-sqlite3lib
–without-sqlite3lib
ERROR: While executing gem … (RuntimeError)
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
Gem files will remain installed in
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sqlite3-ruby-1.1.0 for inspection.
ruby extconf.rb install sqlite3-ruby\nchecking for sqlite3.h… yes
checking for sqlite3_open() in -lsqlite3… no

Results logged to
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sqlite3-ruby-1.1.0/ext/sqlite3_api/gem_make.out
$

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On 7/12/06, Joshua W. [email protected] wrote:

Hi –

I’m trying to set up Rails with sqlite on a raw Debian box. Rails is
fine, but I’m having problems with sqlite. Actually, sqlite is fine, but
the sqlite3-ruby bindings are problematic. I /suspect/ that this box
doesn’t have some important development tools (I had to install gcc and
make manually), but I don’t know what else I’m missing…

do you have swig installed? iirc the sqlite3-ruby bindings depend on it.

martin

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On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 12:24:39PM +0900, Joshua W. wrote:

I’m trying to set up Rails with sqlite on a raw Debian box. Rails is
fine, but I’m having problems with sqlite. Actually, sqlite is fine, but
the sqlite3-ruby bindings are problematic. I /suspect/ that this box
doesn’t have some important development tools (I had to install gcc and
make manually), but I don’t know what else I’m missing…

Here are some very specific instructions which have proved handy in
getting
through this:

http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/camping/wiki/BeAlertWhenOnSqlite3

_why

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why the lucky stiff wrote:

Here are some very specific instructions which have proved handy in
getting through this:

http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/camping/wiki/BeAlertWhenOnSqlite3

Installing ‘build-essential’ seems to have been the last hurdle. I’m up
and flying, now.

Thanks everyone for your help!

– Joshua

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Martin DeMello wrote:

do you have swig installed? iirc the sqlite3-ruby bindings depend on it.

I do, actually.

$ sudo apt-get install swig
Reading Package Lists… Done
Building Dependency Tree… Done
swig is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 133 not upgraded.
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