Gem build "recipe for target 'stemmer.so' failed"
cygwin, jekyll, ruby, rubygems
Solution
Turns out the crux of this error was in the `cannot find -lcrypt`. I installed `libcrypt-devel` and the gem compiled fine after that.
I think on most native Linux distros, this lib will already be included!
Problem
When installing Jekyll from gem using `gem install jekyll`, I am getting the following build error. I am using Cygwin on Windows 7 and have built the `posix-spawn` gem from source prior to installing. ``` Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing jekyll-1.1.2.gem: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. /usr/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb creating Makefile make gcc -I. -I/usr/include/ruby-1.9.1/x86_64-cygwin -I/usr/include/ruby-1.9.1/ruby/backward -I/usr/include/ruby-1.9.1 -I. -ggdb -O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -o porter.o -c porter.c gcc -I. -I/usr/include/ruby-1.9.1/x86_64-cygwin -I/usr/include/ruby-1.9.1/ruby/backward -I/usr/include/ruby-1.9.1 -I. -ggdb -O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -o porter_wrap.o -c porter_wrap.c rm -f stemmer.so gcc -shared -o stemmer.so porter.o porter_wrap.o -L. -L/usr/lib -L. -Wl,--export-all-symbols -Wl,--enable-auto-image-base,--enable-auto-import -lruby191 -lpthread -lrt -ldl -lcrypt /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/4.8.1/../../../../x86_64-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: cannot find -lcrypt collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status Makefile:214: recipe for target `stemmer.so' failed make: *** [stemmer.so] Error 1 Gem files will remain installed in /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/fast-stemmer-1.0.2 for inspection. Results logged to /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/fast-stemmer-1.0.2/ext/gem_make.out ``` I am using `gem v2.0.7`, `ruby v1.9.3p448`, `gcc v4.8.1` and `g++ v4.8.1` Any ideas? I have no idea when it comes to Ruby gems. I cannot find any information on this "stemmer". Dan