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Yasuhiro Nagata
Yasuhiro Nagata

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Install 2.x, 3.x version of Ruby via rbenv on M1 Mac

I bought new M1 Mac and struggled to install Ruby.

Here’s what I did to solve the issue.

This solution worked for me installing Ruby 2.6.6 and 3.0.2.

  1. Installed anyenv via brew

    brew install anyenv
    
  2. Installed rbenv via anyenv

    anyenv install rbenv
    
  3. Then I got an error while installing Ruby rbenv install 2.6.6

    rbenv install 2.6.6
    Downloading openssl-1.1.1q.tar.gz...
    -> https://dqw8nmjcqpjn7.cloudfront.net/d7939ce614029cdff0b6c20f0e2e5703158a489a72b2507b8bd51bf8c8fd10ca
    Installing openssl-1.1.1q...
    
    BUILD FAILED (macOS 12.3 using ruby-build 20220630-3-g2155888)
    
    Inspect or clean up the working tree at /var/folders/7w/__wt6xg10rv3jdq_z2rjt8300000gn/T/ruby-build.20220706155948.38261.B1lwKj
    Results logged to /var/folders/7w/__wt6xg10rv3jdq_z2rjt8300000gn/T/ruby-build.20220706155948.38261.log
    
    Last 10 log lines:
    clang  -Iinclude -arch arm64 -O3 -Wall -D_REENTRANT -DZLIB -DZLIB_SHARED -DNDEBUG -I/Users/yas/.anyenv/envs/rbenv/versions/2.6.6/include  -MMD -MF test/wpackettest.d.tmp -MT test/wpackettest.o -c -o test/wpackettest.o test/wpackettest.c
    clang  -Iinclude -arch arm64 -O3 -Wall -D_REENTRANT -DZLIB -DZLIB_SHARED -DNDEBUG -I/Users/yas/.anyenv/envs/rbenv/versions/2.6.6/include  -MMD -MF test/x509_check_cert_pkey_test.d.tmp -MT test/x509_check_cert_pkey_test.o -c -o test/x509_check_cert_pkey_test.o test/x509_check_cert_pkey_test.c
    test/v3ext.c:201:24: error: implicitly declaring library function 'memcmp' with type 'int (const void *, const void *, unsigned long)' [-Werror,-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
            if (!TEST_true(memcmp(ip1->data, ip2->data, ip1->length) <= 0))
                           ^
    test/v3ext.c:201:24: note: include the header <string.h> or explicitly provide a declaration for 'memcmp'
    1 error generated.
    make[1]: *** [test/v3ext.o] Error 1
    make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
    make: *** [all] Error 2
    
  4. This error is related to Openssl

    1. His post was so helpful.
      https://github.com/rbenv/ruby-build/discussions/1853#discussioncomment-2146106

      Fundamentally speaking, it is caused by OpenSSL.
      OpenSSL@3.0 came in Sep 2021, but it was not compatible with ruby-build. So we have to switch the OpenSSL@1.1.

  5. Installed openssl version 1.1 using brew

    brew install openssl@1.1
    
  6. Then set PATH to openssl@1.1

    yas@MBP2 ~> which openssl
    /usr/bin/openssl
    yas@MBP2 ~> fish_add_path /opt/homebrew/opt/openssl@1.1/bin // set PATH. this is for fish shell.
    // if you use other than fish, add '/opt/homebrew/opt/openssl@1.1/bin' to your PATH.
    yas@MBP2 ~> exec $SHELL -l //refresh shell
    yas@MBP2 ~> which openssl
    /opt/homebrew/opt/openssl@1.1/bin/openssl
    
  7. Install Ruby using a prefix

    CFLAGS="-Wno-error=implicit-function-declaration" rbenv install 2.6.6
    

Hope this helps

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Ryan Dowler

I just created an account to Thank You!! :)

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Yasuhiro Nagata • Edited

Thank you Ryan! I'm happy that I could help you!

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Tom Lane

I'm lost trying to install ruby versions using rbenv. Might you have a bit of time to help me troubleshoot? I've tried what's here but am experiencing a different set of issues related to the clang compiler

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T "@tnir" N

Why not 2.7? 2.6 got EOL'd early this year.

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Yasuhiro Nagata

Thanks for telling!
My company product is running on 2.6 now, so I had no choice :-(

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T "@tnir" N

🤔 Use 2.7 or higher very soon in your company!

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Yasuhiro Nagata

Got it! I'm gonna suggest it to my team.😊

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Sean Hsu

That's also what I doing for replace my M1 macbook air from INTEL to Apple base, thanks!

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Yasuhiro Nagata

Good to know!
Thanks for your feedback!