# Oniguruma busted on mac?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/oniguruma-busted-on-mac/105833>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [June 3, 2007, 4:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/oniguruma-busted-on-mac/105833 "2007-06-03T16:38:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![tbobker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@tbobker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tbobker)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2007, 4:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/oniguruma-busted-on-mac/105833/1 "2007-06-03T16:38:13Z")

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695\> sudo gem install -r oniguruma  
Bulk updating Gem source index for: [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org)  
Select which gem to install for your platform (i686-darwin8.9.1)

1. oniguruma 1.1.0 (ruby)
2. oniguruma 1.1.0 (mswin32)
3. oniguruma 1.0.1 (ruby)
4. oniguruma 1.0.1 (mswin32)
5. Skip this gem
6. Cancel installation

> 1  
> Building native extensions. This could take a while…  
> ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError)  
> ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

ruby extconf.rb install -r oniguruma  
checking for main() in -lonig… no  
creating Makefile

make  
gcc -I. -I. -I/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-darwin8.9.1 -I. -fno-  
common -Wall -c oregexp.c  
oregexp.c:2:23: error: oniguruma.h: No such file or directory  
oregexp.c:9: error: parse error before ‘regex\_t’  
oregexp.c:9: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union  
oregexp.c:10: warning: type defaults to ‘int’ in declaration of  
‘ORegexp’  
oregexp.c:10: warning: data definition has no type or storage class  
oregexp.c:15: error: parse error before ‘\*’ token

… and so on …

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**Author:** ![tbobker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@tbobker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tbobker)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2007, 4:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/oniguruma-busted-on-mac/105833/2 "2007-06-03T16:47:14Z")

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d’oh, never mind, had PATH screwed up. -Tim