pieter michels

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March 9, 2012 at 10:50am

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therubyracer compile error OSX 10.7 Lion

I ran into some erros while compiling the therubyracer gem after an update to Mac OSX Lion. It threw errors like this:

Most of the solutions on Github and other blogs didn’t work for me. Eventually I fixed it with the following commands:

Install latest v8 library through Homebrew

Install libv8 gem

Symlink gcc binary to gcc-4.2 binary:

(this was probably the real solution)