Rubynaut: Install ruby memcached on MacOSX

Install ruby memcached on MacOSX

stephane — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:13:00 +0100

Classical way, download following archives and compile it in the order. Xcode has to be installed.

tar xzf *.tar.gz
cd 
./configure
make 
sudo make install

lib need for server: lib event. download
the server: memcached. download
the client lib written in c: libmemcached. download

the ruby binding:

sudo gem install memcached

or with leopard:

sudo env ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386" gem install memcached

"Install ruby memcached on MacOSX" by LDC

Sat, 03 May 2008 00:16:31 +0200

The link above for libmemcached points to version .15 but the gem seems to need .19. You can download .19 from http://tangent.org/552/libmemcached.html

"Install ruby memcached on MacOSX" by Sam

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:59:27 +0200

Just tried this on 10.5.2 and it fails to install the gem:

Building native extensions. This could take a while… ERROR: Error installing memcached: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby extconf.rb install memcached checking for memcached_server_add() in -lmemcached… yes checking for #include ... yes checking for #include ... no

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.

I’m a bit stuck now.