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Error installing Jekyll gem
gem install jekyll
Fetching: ffi-1.9.3.gem (100%)
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR: Error installing jekyll:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
/usr/bin/ruby extconf.rb
checking for ffi.h... *** extconf.rb failed ***
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of necessary
libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more details. You may
need configuration options.
Provided configuration options:
--with-opt-dir
--without-opt-dir
--with-opt-include
--without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
--with-opt-lib
--without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
--with-make-prog
--without-make-prog
--srcdir=.
--curdir
--ruby=/usr/bin/ruby
--with-ffi_c-dir
--without-ffi_c-dir
--with-ffi_c-include
--without-ffi_c-include=${ffi_c-dir}/include
--with-ffi_c-lib
--without-ffi_c-lib=${ffi_c-dir}/
--with-libffi-config
--without-libffi-config
--with-pkg-config
--without-pkg-config
/usr/share/ruby/mkmf.rb:434:in `try_do': The compiler failed to generate an executable file. (RuntimeError)
You have to install development tools first.
from /usr/share/ruby/mkmf.rb:565:in `try_cpp'
from /usr/share/ruby/mkmf.rb:1044:in `block in have_header'
from /usr/share/ruby/mkmf.rb:895:in `block in checking_for'
from /usr/share/ruby/mkmf.rb:340:in `block (2 levels) in postpone'
from /usr/share/ruby/mkmf.rb:310:in `open'
from /usr/share/ruby/mkmf.rb:340:in `block in postpone'
from /usr/share/ruby/mkmf.rb:310:in `open'
from /usr/share/ruby/mkmf.rb:336:in `postpone'
from /usr/share/ruby/mkmf.rb:894:in `checking_for'
from /usr/share/ruby/mkmf.rb:1043:in `have_header'
from extconf.rb:16:in `<main>'
extconf failed, exit code 1
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Error solved.
Solution: install gcc

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Error solved after installing gcc.

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