# Mongrel on AIX **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [April 4, 2006, 12:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-on-aix/93525 "2006-04-04T12:47:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tomx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/97f17d/32.png) [@tomx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tomx)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 12:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-on-aix/93525/1 "2006-04-04T12:47:51Z")
Trying to get fcgi and apache to play nicely on AIX has turned nasty, so I’m switching my hopes to mongrel for a solution. I’ve managed to get all the gems and dependancies and everything set up, Or think I have. There were a couple of errors during the install. Listed below. ` gem install mongrel.gem Attempting local installation of 'mongrel.gem' Building native extensions. This could take a while... cc: not found make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1. Stop. cc: not found make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1. Stop. ruby extconf.rb install mongrel.gem checking for main() in -lc… no creating Makefile make cc -g -I. -I/usr/local/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/powerpc-aix5.1.0.0 -I/usr/local/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/powerpc-aix5.1.0.0 -I. -qalloca -D_LINUX_SOURCE_COMPAT -qlonglong -c http11.c make install cc -g -I. -I/usr/local/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/powerpc-aix5.1.0.0 -I/usr/local/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/powerpc-aix5.1.0.0 -I. -qalloca -D_LINUX_SOURCE_COMPAT -qlonglong -c http11.c Successfully installed mongrel, version 0.3.12 Installing RDoc documentation for mongrel-0.3.12… lib/mongrel/rails.rb:135:49: Skipping require of dynamic string: “#{ops[:cwd]}/config/environment” ` But it does say “Successfully installed mongrel” Now when I try and run mongrel I get this message. ` mongrel_rails start -d /usr/local/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-0.3.12/lib/mongrel/rails.rb:28: uninitialized constant Mongrel::HttpHandler (NameError) from /usr/local/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in `require' from /usr/local/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-0.3.12/bin/mongrel_rails:4 from /usr/local/ruby/bin/mongrel_rails:18 ` Has anyone else managed to get mongrel running on AIX (5.3)? Have I missed something obvious in the error messages? Any help is really appreciated. Thanks Tom ---
**Author:** ![tomx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/97f17d/32.png) [@tomx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tomx)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 3:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-on-aix/93525/2 "2006-04-04T15:51:05Z")
Hey Tom, Can you try the most recent Mongrel (0.3.12.1)? It fixes this Rdoc error. That class loading error pops up with a few people and I’ve never been able to figure out why. What’s your ruby version? Do you know if it was compiled with gcc4? Zed A. Shaw > **[Zed A. shaw](https://zedshaw.com/)** > > Personal essays and writings by Zed A. Shaw. [http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/](http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/) On 4/4/06 6:47 AM, “Tom S.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Trying to get fcgi and apache to play nicely on AIX has turned nasty, so > I’m switching my hopes to mongrel for a solution. I’ve managed to get > all the gems and dependancies and everything set up, Or think I have. > There were a couple of errors during the install. Listed below. ---
**Author:** ![tomx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/97f17d/32.png) [@tomx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tomx)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 4:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-on-aix/93525/3 "2006-04-04T16:18:55Z")
On 04/04/06, Tom S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1. > > Stop. > cc: not found > > make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1. Hi Tom, I’m no expert (just started playing with mongrel myself) but it looks to me that you don’t have a compiler available - mongrel has a C-based request parser that needs to be compile during installation. It might be as simple as path issue to your compiler. Regards, Paul. ---
**Author:** ![tomx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/97f17d/32.png) [@tomx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tomx)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 4:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-on-aix/93525/4 "2006-04-04T16:53:35Z")
> What’s your ruby version? 1.8.4 > Do you know if it was compiled with gcc4? We got the binaries from a very nice man who compiled it with IBM visual age. Paul - I’ll pass your comments onto our sysadmin and see if he can fix it. Thanks both of you for the help I’ll let you know how I get on. Cheers Tom