Compiling posgres gem fails on osx

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Hi,

I am trying to install the postgres gem on OSX with this command:

sudo ruby extconf.rb --with-psql-include-dir=/sw/include/postgresql/ \
  --with-psql-lib-dir=/sw/lib/

This fails with this output:

checking for cygwin32_socket() in -lwsock32... no
checking for socket() in -lsocket... no
checking for gethostbyname() in -linet... no
checking for gethostbyname() in -lnsl... no
checking for sys/un.h... yes
checking for socket()... no
checking for cygwin32_socket()... no

I installed postgresql8 (plus -dev) via Fink from source. Can somebody
help me to get this to work?

Cheers,

- Steph.

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I recently ran into this problem myself. This page: http://blog.humlab.umu.se/samuel/archives/000019.html helped immensely

The other option is the pure ruby Postgre interface, which I used on Windows. (Developing on a Mac, deploying on windows, don't ask.)

gem install postgres-pr

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On Sep 2, 2005, at 6:11 PM, Stephan Mueller wrote:

Hi,

I am trying to install the postgres gem on OSX with this command:

sudo ruby extconf.rb --with-psql-include-dir=/sw/include/postgresql/ \
  --with-psql-lib-dir=/sw/lib/

This fails with this output:

checking for cygwin32_socket() in -lwsock32... no
checking for socket() in -lsocket... no
checking for gethostbyname() in -linet... no
checking for gethostbyname() in -lnsl... no
checking for sys/un.h... yes
checking for socket()... no
checking for cygwin32_socket()... no

I installed postgresql8 (plus -dev) via Fink from source. Can somebody
help me to get this to work?

Cheers,

- Steph.