Install ruby-1.8.7 with rbenv on macOS Catalina (10.15)

rbenv-ruby187-macos.sh

#!/bin/sh

# 1) Install Xcode 11
# 2) Install command line tools: `xcode-select --install`
# 3) Install HomeBrew
# 4) brew tap cartr/qt4 && brew install cartr/qt4/openssl@1.0 subversion rbenv
# 5) Setup rbenv
# 6) Run this command

PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$(brew --prefix cartr/qt4/openssl@1.0)/lib/pkgconfig" \
CFLAGS="-O2 -fno-tree-dce -fno-optimize-sibling-calls -I$(brew --prefix cartr/qt4/openssl@1.0)/include" \
LDFLAGS="-L$(brew --prefix cartr/qt4/openssl@1.0)/lib" \
rbenv install 1.8.7-p375

# If your macOS is older than 10.15, see the history of this gist.

Fantastic!

Thanks for share! I have tried the script and I got this error:

BUILD FAILED (OS X 10.13.4 using ruby-build 20180424)

Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64: "___builtin_flt_rounds", referenced from: _Init_Numeric in libruby-static.a(numeric.o) _ruby_strtod in libruby-static.a(util.o) ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64 collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

Did you have the same problem?, I will apreciate any additional help or recomendation.

Thank you in advance.

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Thanks :)

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Thanks for posting this! It helped me install Ruby 1.8.7 with asdf-vm. I posted my gist if it's helpful.

Thank you so much for posting this, it has saved my life!!

Thanks!

Thank you for sharing this snippet 👍

If you use chruby you can also install the old ruby 1.8.7 with ruby-build with the commands provided by @yatsu:

CC=gcc-6 CFLAGS="-O2 -fno-tree-dce -fno-optimize-sibling-calls -I$(brew --prefix openssl)/include" LDFLAGS="-L$(brew --prefix openssl)/lib" ruby-build 1.8.7-p375 ~/.rubies/ruby-1.8.7

Thank you 🙇
I used it to RVM and work fine

masOS Catalina 10.15.4 (19E266)

brew tap cartr/qt4 && brew install cartr/qt4/openssl@1.0
brew --prefix cartr/qt4/openssl@1.0 
>>> /usr/local/opt/openssl@1.0

rvm install 1.8.7-head --with-openssl-dir="/usr/local/opt/openssl@1.0"
 

Thanks a lot for sharing this! Copied from rodrigoarino's comment and had the smoothest installation in a very long time. Highly appreciated!

I have this error when running on MacOC Catalina 10.15.4

eval.c:7288:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'rb_thread_join' is invalid in C99 [-Werror,-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
        rb_thread_join(owner->thread, -1.0);
        ^
eval.c:7288:2: note: did you mean 'rb_thread_main'?
./intern.h:236:7: note: 'rb_thread_main' declared here
VALUE rb_thread_main _((void));
      ^

I have this error when running on MacOC Catalina 10.15.4

eval.c:7288:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'rb_thread_join' is invalid in C99 [-Werror,-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
        rb_thread_join(owner->thread, -1.0);
        ^
eval.c:7288:2: note: did you mean 'rb_thread_main'?
./intern.h:236:7: note: 'rb_thread_main' declared here
VALUE rb_thread_main _((void));
      ^

Using gcc-6 or other versions may help.
See old version of this script in Revisions page.

(I don't have Catalina now.)

I have this error when running on MacOC Catalina 10.15.4

eval.c:7288:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'rb_thread_join' is invalid in C99 [-Werror,-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
        rb_thread_join(owner->thread, -1.0);
        ^
eval.c:7288:2: note: did you mean 'rb_thread_main'?
./intern.h:236:7: note: 'rb_thread_main' declared here
VALUE rb_thread_main _((void));
      ^

Adding -Wno-error=implicit-function-declaration to CFLAGS has helped me (MacOS Monterey 12.3.1).