package configuration for libffi is not found in macOS while installing travis-cli

Question

I am trying to install gem install travis to use travis-cli as per reference https://rubygems.org/gems/travis but getting below error.

Tried solution mentioned here https://github.com/ffi/ffi/issues/653 :

brew reinstall libffi
export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/libffi/lib"
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/local/opt/libffi/lib/pkgconfig"
gem install travis

package configuration for libffi is not found "xcrun clang -o conftest -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.3/usr/include/ruby-2.3.0/universal-darwin16 -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.3/usr/include/ruby-2.3.0/ruby/backward -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.3/usr/include/ruby-2.3.0 -I. -D_XOPEN_SOURCE -D_DARWIN_C_SOURCE -D_DARWIN_UNLIMITED_SELECT -D_REENTRANT -g -Os -pipe -DHAVE_GCC_ATOMIC_BUILTINS -iwithsysroot /usr/local/libressl/include conftest.c -L. -L/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.3/usr/lib -L. -L /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.12.Internal.sdk/usr/local/libressl/lib -L/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.12.Internal.sdk/usr/local/lib -arch x86_64 -arch i386 -lruby.2.3.0 -lpthread -ldl -lobjc " In file included from conftest.c:1: In file included from /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.3/usr/include/ruby-2.3.0/ruby.h:33: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.3/usr/include/ruby-2.3.0/ruby/ruby.h:24:10: fatal error: 'ruby/config.h' file not found #include "ruby/config.h" ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1 error generated. checked program was: /* begin */ 1: #include "ruby.h" 2: 3: int main(int argc, char *argv) 4: { 5: return 0; 6: } / end */

Any help will be appreciated! try finding out but didn't find helpful

Coronagraph

Would you please accept my answer if you see it's correct? – Sower

Dec 29, 2022 - Awesome Answer! What a pain CocoaPods is, homebrew, ruby, gem. – Renin

Answer 1

This will do the trick

sudo gem install -n /usr/local/bin cocoapods -v 1.8.4

Latest CocoaPods 1.10.0 won't work.

Update!

if you want to instal CocoaPods 1.10.0 + you can use HomeBrew and then enter the below in command line

brew install cocoapods

Sower

confirmed as of 5 mins ago, props! also I needed 1.9.x, so i had to follow this. – Maybellemayberry

this worked like smoother than anything else. Thanks @Alshcompiler – Coronagraph

HomeBrew worked great. They should offer this solution on their website. – Pennebaker

Hats off Bro ! I am having Macbook Air 2020 withe xCode 13.1 and was getting the error as below. "Building native extensions. This could take a while..." ERROR: Error installing cocoapods: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. "brew install cocoapods" work like a charm. Saved my day ! Thank you so much. – Queensland

Answer 2

I had the same problem. I noticed the files are searched in

/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.3/usr/include/ruby-2.3.0/universal-darwin16

I had installed XCode 12.2 with its command line tools which didn't have that folder but universal-darwin20. I solved it by soft linking that folder to universal-darwin16.

From terminal:

ln -s /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.3/usr/include/ruby-2.3.0/universal-darwin20 /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.3/usr/include/ruby-2.3.0/universal-darwin16

Fibrinolysis

let me try this. Thanks – Coronagraph

How did you find your universal-darwin version? – Hispanicize

Answer 3

Thanks to the previous response who symlinked the universal-darwin I figured out the location on mine was little different within Xcode app. For anyone who might need this:

ln -s /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX11.0.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/include/ruby-2.6.0/universal-darwin20 /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX11.0.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/include/ruby-2.6.0/universal-darwin19

Cerium

This fixed it for me (I had to figure out what my actual directory was, but it did the trick after that). Thank you so much! – Hiroshima

It worked for me too. – Gesualdo

Answer 4

This worked for me

brew install cocoapods

Indictable

Answer 5

This is the way I was able to install cocoapods verion 1.10.x on Catalina 10.15.x
Download Command Line Tools 11.5 (works on Catalina) from Apple Developer Downloads

sudo rm -rf /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools
Install Command Line Tools from .dmg/.pkg
sudo xcode-select --switch /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools
sudo gem install -n /usr/local/bin cocoapods
sudo xcode-select --switch /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer

Subsist

I still needed to create a symlink like some other answers suggested. macOS Ventura would not allow a symlink to be created within the Xcode package contents even using sudo, so installing and switching to the command line tools and then creating the symlink there did the trick. – Crypt

Answer 6

I fixed it by Xcode.

$ sudo xcode-select --switch /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer
$ sudo gem install -n /usr/local/bin cocoapods

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