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Asked: 2026-05-20T19:38:47+00:00

On Ruby 1.8.7 and rails 2.3.5 I get: gem install rmagick ERROR: Error installing

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On Ruby 1.8.7 and rails 2.3.5 I get:

gem install rmagick

ERROR:  Error installing rmagick:

ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.


    /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby extconf.rb
    mkmf.rb can't find header files for ruby at       
    /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/ruby.h


Gem files will remain installed in /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rmagick-2.13.1 for inspection.

Results logged to /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rmagick-2.13.1/ext/RMagick/gem_make.out

Building native extensions.  This could take a while...

Cynicalgrinch:levelous pawel$ gem install rmagick

Building native extensions.  This could take a while...

ERROR:  Error installing rmagick:

    ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.


        /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby extconf.rb

mkmf.rb can't find header files for ruby at /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/ruby.h


Gem files will remain installed in /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rmagick-2.13.1 for inspection.

Results logged to /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rmagick-2.13.1/ext/RMagick/gem_make.out


Gem_make.out says this:

/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby extconf.rb
mkmf.rb can't find header files for ruby at /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/ruby.h
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  1. Editorial Team

    To install rmagick with the gem system, you must have “imagemagick” on your system. The following error line says that rmagick failed to build because the native extension (imagemagick) does not exist on your system.

    ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

    On OSX, you can use brew (the best way in my opinion) to install imagemagick. Once brew is installed :

    brew install imagemagick
gem install rmagick

    On Mountain Lion (OSX), after:

    brew install imagemagick

    it may be necessary to force the re-creation of some symlinks manually before being able to install the rmagick gem.

    > brew link -f jpeg
> brew link -f libpng
> brew link -f freetype
> brew link -f imagemagick
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