rbenv install 3.0.4 fails on macOS 13.3.1

[coolandsmartrr]

I've tried to install ruby 3.0.4 through rbenv with the command: rbenv install 3.0.4 .
I get an error relating OpenSSL all the time:

The Ruby openssl extension was not compiled.
ERROR: Ruby install aborted due to missing extensions
Configure options used:
  --prefix=/Users/ricky/.rbenv/versions/3.0.4
  --enable-shared
  --with-readline-dir=/opt/homebrew/opt/readline
  --with-libyaml-dir=/opt/homebrew/opt/libyaml
  --with-openssl-dir=/usr/local/opt/[email protected]
  CC=clang
  LDFLAGS=-L/Users/ricky/.rbenv/versions/3.0.4/lib 
  CPPFLAGS=-I/Users/ricky/.rbenv/versions/3.0.4/include 

To fix the OpenSSL error, I've tried these methods:

1. Reinstall OpenSSL via brew uninstall openssl and brew install openssl, then rbenv install 3.0.4
2. Make sure OpenSSL is linked via brew link openssl --force, then rbenv install 3.0.4
3. Install with OpenSSL path specified: RUBY_CONFIGURE_OPTS=--with-openssl-dir=/opt/homebrew/opt/openssl@3 rbenv install 3.0.4
4. Reinstall rbenv with brew install rbenv ruby-build, then rbenv install 3.0.4

These methods were indicated in this Github dicussion. None of these methods resulted in a successful build.

Please let me know if there is a way to build ruby successfully.

Here is my configuration:

OS: macOS 13.3.1
Chip: Apple Silicon
rbenv: 1.2.0
Homebrew: 4.0.12

[hsbt]

Ruby 3.0 didn't support OpenSSL 3.x. Try brew install [email protected] and replacing
openssl version on RUBY_CONFIGURE_OPTS.

[coolandsmartrr]

@hsbt Thank you for your reply. I got this error:

The Ruby openssl extension was not compiled.
ERROR: Ruby install aborted due to missing extensions
Configure options used:
  --prefix=/Users/ricky/.rbenv/versions/3.0.4
  --enable-shared
  --with-readline-dir=/opt/homebrew/opt/readline
  --with-libyaml-dir=/opt/homebrew/opt/libyaml
  --with-openssl-dir=/opt/homebrew/opt/[email protected]
  CC=clang
  LDFLAGS=-L/Users/ricky/.rbenv/versions/3.0.4/lib 
  CPPFLAGS=-I/Users/ricky/.rbenv/versions/3.0.4/include 

I tried using [email protected] with these steps:

1. Take path printed from brew --prefix [email protected]
2. Run RUBY_CONFIGURE_OPTS=--with-openssl-dir=/opt/homebrew/opt/[email protected] rbenv install 3.0.4

[coolandsmartrr]

I ran these exports and rbenv built ruby successfully:

export LDFLAGS=-L/opt/homebrew/opt/[email protected]/lib
export CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/homebrew/opt/[email protected]/include

[hsbt]

You may need to run with double quote for RUBY_CONFIGURE_OPTS.

RUBY_CONFIGURE_OPTS="--with-openssl-dir=/opt/homebrew/opt/[email protected]" rbenv install 3.0.4

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I'm happy to your issue was solved. Thanks for sharing that.

[coolandsmartrr]

Thank you for helping me out.

[joekrump]

I'm running into almost the identical issue for installing ruby 3.0.6 and the answer above doesn't resolve my issue.

When I run:

RUBY_CONFIGURE_OPTS="--with-openssl-dir=/opt/homebrew/opt/[email protected]" rbenv install 3.0.6

I get:

The Ruby openssl extension was not compiled.
/Users/josephkrump/.rbenv/versions/3.0.6/lib/ruby/3.0.0/yaml.rb:3: warning: It seems your ruby installation is missing psych (for YAML output).
To eliminate this warning, please install libyaml and reinstall your ruby.
The Ruby yaml extension was not compiled.
ERROR: Ruby install aborted due to missing extensions
Configure options used:
  --prefix=/Users/josephkrump/.rbenv/versions/3.0.6
  --enable-shared
  --with-readline-dir=/opt/homebrew/opt/readline
  --with-libyaml-dir=/opt/homebrew/opt/libyaml
  --with-gmp-dir=/opt/homebrew/opt/gmp
  --with-openssl-dir=/opt/homebrew/opt/[email protected]
  CC=clang
  LDFLAGS=-L/Users/josephkrump/.rbenv/versions/3.0.6/lib -L/opt/homebrew/opt/[email protected]/lib
  CPPFLAGS=-I/Users/josephkrump/.rbenv/versions/3.0.6/include -I/opt/homebrew/opt/[email protected]/include

OS: macOS 13.0
Chip: Apple Silicon
rbenv: 1.2.0
Homebrew: 4.0.12

I followed the steps here: https://github.com/rbenv/ruby-build/wiki#macos to get setup.

Any help is appreciated.

[joekrump]

Thanks for taking some time to look into this and for your prompt responses @hsbt

[hsbt]

👍 Sharing GEM_HOME is useful. But it confused us when we used multiple versions of Ruby. I'll resolve this issue at Ruby and RubyGems.

[mislav]

@hsbt Should ruby-build delete the GEM_HOME variable inherited from the environment while building Ruby? I'm not sure if the user's GEM_HOME value is useful for anything when building Ruby, and could potentially sabotage the installation if that location contains gems built by another Ruby version.

[hsbt]

Should ruby-build delete the GEM_HOME variable inherited from the environment while building Ruby?

I think so. But the recent Ruby version will install debug or some of useful gems into GEM_HOME. When ruby-build delete the GEM_HOME, make install try to install the default location of Ruby installation.

After that, the users can't find debug gem and others. I investigate what happens deleting GEM_HOME.

[erikw]

I've been having issues with asdf-ruby/rbenv/ruby-build for quite some time, with the ruby installation failing with building openssl extensions, and I just found out it's because I had $GEM_HOME set in my environment.

Some other stories here: asdf-vm/asdf-ruby#206 (comment)

[sudeeptarlekar]

Hello,
First of all thanks for this wonderful tool with which I never had a problem before but recently I installed Ventura(13.3.1) and now I am not able to install any Ruby on my Mac.
I have tried every answer from discussions but nothing worked.

Using XCode14

$> pkgutil --pkg-info=com.apple.pkg.CLTools_Executables | grep version
version: 14.3.0.0.1.1679647830

Reinstalled libyaml, libffi, readline, gmp and [email protected]

And after that installing [email protected] is failing

RUBY_CONFIGURE_OPTS="--with-openssl-dir=$(brew --prefix [email protected]) --disable-install-doc --disable-shared" rbenv install 2.7.7

Here are last few lines from log

installing default fiddle libraries
linking shared-object rbconfig/sizeof.bundle
compiling ripper.c
compiling init.c
linking shared-object readline.bundle
compiling stringio.c
checking ../.././parse.y and ../.././ext/ripper/eventids2.c
ripper.c:6178:9: warning: variable 'yynerrs' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
    int yynerrs;
        ^
ripper.y:10722:1: warning: unused function 'parser_token_value_print' [-Wunused-function]
parser_token_value_print(struct parser_params *p, enum yytokentype type, const YYSTYPE *valp)
^
2 warnings generated.
make[2]: make[2]: *** [init.o] Killed: 9
make[2]: *** [../../.ext/.timestamp/.RUBYCOMMONDIR.-.psych.-.visitors.time] Killed: 9
make[2]: *** [stringio.o] Killed: 9
make[2]: *** [strscan.o] Killed: 9*** [pre-install-rb-default] Killed: 9
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[1]: *** [ext/stringio/all] Error 2
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[1]: *** [ext/rubyvm/all] Error 2
make[1]: *** [ext/psych/all] Error 2

make[1]: *** [ext/strscan/all] Error 2
compiling syslog.c
compiling constants.c
linking shared-object ripper.bundle
compiling zlib.c
linking shared-object syslog.bundle
make[1]: *** [ext/socket/all] Error 2
linking shared-object zlib.bundle
make: *** [build-ext] Error 2

complete log can be found at https://gist.github.com/sudeeptarlekar/782fe0f289bae491dc8a284bba4f5633

Tried installing Ruby3 with openssl@3, but not able to install that either.

Let me know if you need more information from my end.

[mislav]

Hi, your failure doesn't seem at all related to the original post. I'm not sure what causes it, but you could try without --disable-shared (there is a known Ruby compilation problem on macOS when the shared library is disabled) or with a newer Ruby version, since 2.7 is EOL.

[sudeeptarlekar]

Thank you @mislav for looking into it, but I am able to install Ruby now, looks like issue of corporate MacOS image. Few weeks ago I installed few Xcode updates and now able to install Ruby as usual...

[wallehxz]

I fix the issue brew link --overwrite [email protected]

[biancaiz]

This worked for me too, thank you!
(version 14.4.1)

[LedZeck]

It did work for me, thank you!!

but I had to turn off the Rosetta option on iTerm in order to work.

[baochuquan]

It works for me!

[jsperezg]

not all heroes wear capes

[Etx17]

Worked too when i needed to isntall ruby 3.0.0, on Mac0S 14.x
thanks !

[diogorlo]

None of the solutions work for Sonoma 14.0. I'm facing it in CircleCI, GitHub actions and locally.

Error running '__rvm_make -j12',
BUILD FAILED (macOS 14.0 on x86_64 using ruby-build 20240116)

[mislav]

@diogorlo You have not specified which ruby version you were trying to install, what was the exact error output (what you've pasted seems lacking), nor supplied the build log. Without this information, no one can give you any advice about why this might have failed.

However, you typically never need to compile Ruby in GitHub Actions, since you can just use the setup-ruby action to hook up a precompiled Ruby version.

[diogorlo]

The version did not matter and the action did not work. The solution was to load chruby through the shell.

[amkisko]

I was trying to install ruby 3.0.6 on Sonoma 14.3.1 using rbenv:

ruby-build: using readline from homebrew
ruby-build: using libyaml from homebrew
ruby-build: using gmp from homebrew
-> ./configure "--prefix=$HOME/.rbenv/versions/3.0.6" --with-openssl-dir=/usr/local/opt/[email protected] --with-readline-dir=/usr/local/opt/readline --with-libyaml-dir=/usr/local/opt/libyaml --with-gmp-dir=/usr/local/opt/gmp --with-ext=openssl,psych,+ --disable-shared
-> make -j 16

BUILD FAILED (macOS 14.3.1 on x86_64 using ruby-build 20231225)

---

bigdecimal.c:249:5: error: 'maybe_unused' attribute cannot be applied to types
  249 |     ENTER(1);
      |     ^
bigdecimal.c:68:33: note: expanded from macro 'ENTER'
   68 | #define ENTER(n) volatile VALUE RB_UNUSED_VAR(vStack[n]);int iStack=0
      |                                 ^
../.././include/ruby/backward/2/attributes.h:168:28: note: expanded from macro 'RB_UNUSED_VAR'
  168 | #define RB_UNUSED_VAR(x) x RBIMPL_ATTR_MAYBE_UNUSED()
      |                            ^
../.././include/ruby/internal/attr/maybe_unused.h:31:39: note: expanded from macro 'RBIMPL_ATTR_MAYBE_UNUSED'
   31 | # define RBIMPL_ATTR_MAYBE_UNUSED() [[maybe_unused]]
      |                                       ^
bigdecimal.c:372:5: error: 'maybe_unused' attribute cannot be applied to types
  372 |     ENTER(1);
      |     ^

Does anybody have suggestions how to fix these?

[taylorgriffinshipt]

anyone know how I can get this patch working with rvm

[nicksieger]

https://rvm.io/rubies/patching

[taylorgriffinshipt]

https://rvm.io/rubies/patching

yeah I tried that but it is failing, will keep looking 🫡

[brunopagno]

For those using asdf I was able to apply the patch by doing:

RUBY_APPLY_PATCHES=$'path/to/the/ruby-3.0.x.patch' asdf install ruby 3.0.7

[estamos]

I had to whip up a patch to fix this so I could build 3.0.x on Sequoia. To install, run:

cat ruby-3.0.x.patch | rbenv install --patch 3.0.6

Appreciated! 👏
That worked for me for me on ruby 3.0.3. and Sequoia 15.0.1 (24A348) on my Intel MacBook.

cat ruby-3.0.x.patch | rbenv install --patch 3.0.3

When running

export CC=gcc
rbenv install 3.0.3

I was receiving the same erors.

[parreirat]

Had the same issue, and fixed it by pointing to my installed openssl@3:

RUBY_CONFIGURE_OPTS=--with-openssl-dir=/opt/homebrew/opt/openssl@3 rbenv install 3.3.4

[ernonemacher]

I'm running into a similar issue but nothing above worked so far.

I recently upgraded my Mac from an Intel to a M3 chip. And I transferred everything using the Mac's Migration Assistant.
I was trying to run pod install in a Flutter project.
It was returning an error like mach-o file, but is an incompatible architecture (have 'x86_64', need 'arm64e' or 'arm64')

I reinstalled my ruby, rbenv, ruby-build, libyaml, openssl, cocoapds, psych using brew

Somehow now the cocoapods is using the new Ruby version installed by brew. But apparently, gem is still using the old one (2.6.0). So when I try running gem anything returns the incompatible architecture error.

I tried installing rbenv and installing any version of ruby to change the system one but then the error bellow happens

rbenv install 3.3.4

*** Following extensions are not compiled:
openssl:
	Could not be configured. It will not be installed.
	OpenSSL library directory could not be found in '/opt/homebrew/opt/openssl@3/lib'. You might want to fix this error in one of the following ways.
	  * Recompile OpenSSL by configuring it with --libdir=lib  to specify the OpenSSL library directory.
	  * Recompile Ruby by configuring it with --libdir=<dir> to specify the Ruby library directory.
	  * Compile this openssl gem with --with-openssl-include=<dir> and --with-openssl-lib=<dir> options to specify the OpenSSL include and library directories.

psych:
	Could not be configured. It will not be installed.

BUILD FAILED (macOS 14.4 on arm64 using ruby-build 20240903)

[ernonemacher]

I am not sure how, but it worked. I reinstalled Homebrew and then ran:

brew reinstall ruby
echo 'export PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/ruby/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc
export LDFLAGS="-L/opt/homebrew/opt/ruby/lib"
export CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/homebrew/opt/ruby/include"
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/ruby/lib/pkgconfig"

[balianbaleno]

after much struggling, this is what worked for M1 on Sequoia, i did used
arch -x86_64 rvm install 2.6.10 --with-openssl-dir=/usr/local/opt/[email protected]
to install 2.6.10 needed by bundle/pod...

[mislav]

Up-to-date answer that should solve most problems from this thread:

brew install rbenv/tap/[email protected]
curl -fsSL https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/1dfe75b0beb7171b8154ff0856d5149be0207724.patch | rbenv install 3.0.7 --patch

Or, to apply the same patch with asdf instead of rbenv:

RUBY_APPLY_PATCHES="https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/1dfe75b0beb7171b8154ff0856d5149be0207724.patch" asdf install ruby 3.0.7

Explanation

• Ruby 3.0 is only compatible with OpenSSL 1.x, but not with macOS system /usr/bin/openssl (actually LibreSSL). The earliest OpenSSL version currently maintained in Homebrew core formula is openssl@3, which is too new, and Homebrew core dropped support for [email protected] a while ago; that's why it's necessary to install [email protected] from our own Homebrew tap.

• Ruby 3.0 has a known bug in bigdecimal.c on macOS; that's why a patch is needed. The bug is fixed in Ruby 3.1, but the patch will never get backported to Ruby 3.0 due to its End-of-Life status.

• Other workarounds from this thread such as setting LDFLAGS/CPPFLAGS, using the gcc compiler instead of the default clang, using arch -x86_64, etc. are outdated and should never be necessary.

I'm marking this as the new answer because this thread keeps surfacing in web searches.