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I can succesfully install the gsl library in my home directory, but when I try to install the gsl gem I get a big list of errors that I do not understand. I am wondering if someone could give me some idea why I could be getting those errors. I can say I have:

Installed gsl succesfully; at least that is what it looked like. I pointed the path to gsl-config

This is what the error log looks like:

  Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
  ERROR:  Error installing gsl:
    ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

  /home/ted/ruby-1.9.1/bin/ruby extconf.rb install gsl
  checking gsl version... 1.15
  checking gsl cflags... -I/home/ted/gsl-1.15/include
  checking for main() in -lcblas... no
  checking gsl libs... -L/home/ted/gsl-1.15/lib -lgsl -lgslcblas -lm
  checking for round()... no
  checking for rngextra/rngextra.h... no
  checking for qrngextra/qrngextra.h... no
  checking for ool/ool_version.h... no
  checking for tensor/tensor.h... no
  checking for jacobi.h... no
  checking for gsl/gsl_cqp.h... no
  checking for gsl/gsl_multimin_fsdf.h... no
  checking for gsl_poly_solve_quartic() in -lgsl... no
  checking for gsl_eigen_francis() in -lgsl... no
  checking for ndlinear/gsl_multifit_ndlinear.h... no
  checking for alf/alf.h... no
  checking rb-gsl version...1.14.7
  checking ruby version... 1.9.1
  checking for graph... no
  checking for narray.h... yes
  checking for tamu_anova/tamu_anova.h... no
  checking for main() in -ltamuanova... no
  creating Makefile

  make
  gcc -I. -I/home/ted/ruby-1.9.1/include/ruby-1.9.1/x86_64-linux -I/home/ted/ruby-1.9.1/include/ruby-1.9.1/ruby/backward -I/home/ted/ruby-1.9.1/include/ruby-1.9.1 -I. -DHAVE_NARRAY_H  -I/home/ted/ruby-1.9.1/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/narray-0.6.0.1/. -I/home/ted/ruby-1.9.1/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/x86_64-linux    -fPIC  -Wall -I../include  -I/home/ted/gsl-1.15/include  -o sf_bessel.o -c sf_bessel.c
  In file included from sf_bessel.c:13:
  ../include/rb_gsl_sf.h:15:24: error: gsl/gsl_sf.h: No such file or directory
  ../include/rb_gsl_sf.h:16:27: error: gsl/gsl_errno.h: No such file or directory
  ../include/rb_gsl_sf.h:17:28: error: gsl/gsl_vector.h: No such file or directory
  In file included from ../include/rb_gsl_sf.h:18,
                   from sf_bessel.c:13:
  /home/ted/gsl-1.15/include/gsl/gsl_math.h:23:25: error: gsl/gsl_sys.h: No such file or directory
  In file included from sf_bessel.c:13:
  ../include/rb_gsl_sf.h:19:29: error: gsl/gsl_complex.h: No such file or directory
  In file included from ../include/rb_gsl.h:20,
                   from ../include/rb_gsl_sf.h:21,
                   from sf_bessel.c:13:
  ../include/rb_gsl_common.h:23:28: error: gsl/gsl_matrix.h: No such file or directory
  ../include/rb_gsl_common.h:24:33: error: gsl/gsl_permutation.h: No such file or directory
  ../include/rb_gsl_common.h:25:32: error: gsl/gsl_ieee_utils.h: No such file or directory
  In file included from ../include/rb_gsl.h:20,
                   from ../include/rb_gsl_sf.h:21,
                   from sf_bessel.c:13:
  ../include/rb_gsl_common.h:322: warning: type defaults to ‘int’ in declaration of ‘gsl_complex’
  ../include/rb_gsl_common.h:322: error: expected ‘;’, ‘,’ or ‘)’ before ‘*’ token
  ../include/rb_gsl_common.h:324: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token
  ../include/rb_gsl_common.h:325: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token
  ../include/rb_gsl_common.h:326: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token
  ../include/rb_gsl_common.h:328: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token
  ../include/rb_gsl_common.h:329: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token
  ../include/rb_gsl_common.h:330: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token
  ../include/rb_gsl_common.h:340: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘ary2complex’
  In file included from ../include/rb_gsl.h:21,
                   from ../include/rb_gsl_sf.h:21,
                   from sf_bessel.c:13:
  ../include/rb_gsl_math.h:24: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘(’ token
  In file included from ../include/rb_gsl.h:22,
                   from ../include/rb_gsl_sf.h:21,
                   from sf_bessel.c:13:
  ../include/rb_gsl_complex.h:19:34: error: gsl/gsl_complex_math.h: No such file or directory

...

  sf_bessel.c: In function ‘rb_gsl_sf_bessel_zero_J1_e’:
  sf_bessel.c:643: error: ‘gsl_sf_bessel_zero_J1_e’ undeclared (first use in this function)
  sf_bessel.c: In function ‘rb_gsl_sf_bessel_zero_Jnu’:
  sf_bessel.c:648: error: ‘gsl_sf_bessel_zero_Jnu’ undeclared (first use in this function)
  sf_bessel.c: In function ‘rb_gsl_sf_bessel_zero_Jnu_e’:
  sf_bessel.c:653: error: ‘gsl_sf_bessel_zero_Jnu_e’ undeclared (first use in this function)
  make: *** [sf_bessel.o] Error 1


  Gem files will remain installed in /home/ted/ruby-1.9.1/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/gsl-1.14.7 for inspection.
  Results logged to /home/ted/ruby-1.9.1/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/gsl-1.14.7/ext/gem_make.out
Flethuseo
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Install ruby GSL:

Ubuntu 11.10 includes a newer version (1.15) of libgsl0 that is not compatible with ruby/gsl :

Must install older version 1.14 for ruby/gsl to work:

curl -O http://mirror.veriportal.com/gnu/gsl/gsl-1.14.tar.gz
tar xvzf gsl-1.14.tar.gz
cd gsl-1.14
./configure
make
sudo make install
sudo gem install --conservative --no-ri --no-rdoc gsl

Installation works OK and test on Ubuntu and Debian Squeeze:

Fetching: narray-0.6.0.1.gem (100%)
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
Fetching: gsl-1.14.7.gem (100%)
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
Successfully installed narray-0.6.0.1
Successfully installed gsl-1.14.7
2 gems installed
Ami Navon
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    On Mac OSX with homebrew, `brew install gsl114` will install gsl 1.14 for you – nateware Sep 08 '13 at 15:33
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    This mirror is no longer working. I've used this instead: ftp://ftp.unicamp.br/pub/gnu/gsl/gsl-1.14.tar.gz – Felipe Castro Nov 03 '13 at 05:40
  • The problem no longer exists in Ubuntu 14.04, just `sudo apt-get install libgsl0-dev` and all will be fine. – Tamer Shlash Aug 02 '14 at 02:13
  • @TamerShlash: I needed gsl 1.14 for my Jekyll/Octopress setup. Unfortunately, installing `libgsl0-dev` through apt-get doesn't solve the problem (on Ubuntu 14.04). I still have compilation errors when do `gem install gsl -v 1.14.7`. Download and install gsl 1.14 works for me. – Jinghao Shi Nov 09 '14 at 02:03
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which OS are you on?

first you need to install gsl and gsl-devel RPMs on your OS as root... e.g. on Fedora Linux:

sudo yum install -y gsl gsl-devel

then do the gem install gsl or bundle install

without the gsl-devel package, it will not find the correct C-header files.

You also need to make sure that those header files are installed in a location which is included in either the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, or listed in /etc/ld.so.conf

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If you have:

  • GSL 1.16 (check with gsl-config --version) (e.g. in Ubuntu 14.04),
  • Ruby 2.1

Then try https://github.com/siefca/rb-gsl -- it's tweaked for such configuration.
It should also work with Ruby 1.9 and Ruby 2.0.

If you're using bundler to manage gems in a project then put a line in your Gemfile:

gem 'gsl', :git => 'git://github.com/siefca/rb-gsl'

Cheers!

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5

For anyone still struggling to install this with the gsl_matrix_complex_equal issue.

If you have run brew install gsl which will as of this writing install 1.15 and then attempted to install the ruby bindings, you will potentially run into this problem.

Using this repo as your rb-gsl gem source solves the issue: https://github.com/30robots/rb-gsl

However, if you have a newer version of rubygems, that repo makes a call to Gem#searcher which is a deprecated and now removed method.

My repo updates that call to use the Gem::Specification API:

https://github.com/whistlerbrk/rb-gsl

So in short:

brew install gsl on OSX

and in your Gemfile:

gem 'gsl', :git => 'git://github.com/whistlerbrk/rb-gsl.git'

whistler
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under ubuntu 13.04 this solves the problem:

sudo apt-get install libgsl0-dev

no need to manually install an old version

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Attention it seems not working with Ruby 2.1.0.

For Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ruby 2.0.0:

cd ~
wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gsl/gsl-1.15.tar.gz
tar xvzf gsl-1.15.tar.gz
cd gsl-1.15
./configure
make
sudo make install

Check if GSL 1.15 is correctly installed

gsl-config --version

Then install gem (gsl 1.15.3)

gem install gsl
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On my fresh install of Mac OS X Yosemite, I needed specifically 1.15.3, and homebrew can't get that for me (there is no brew install gsl115)

curl ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gsl/gsl-1.15.tar.gz > gsl-1.15.tar.gz
tar xvzf gsl-1.15.tar.gz
cd gsl-1.15
./configure
make
sudo make install
gem install gsl
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For ubuntu 13.10, ruby 2.0.0 works fine next-

curl -O http://ftp.unicamp.br/pub/gnu/gsl/gsl-1.16.tar.gz
tar xvzf gsl-1.16.tar.gz
cd gsl-1.16
./configure
make
sudo make install
sudo gem install --conservative --no-ri --no-rdoc gsl

Attention: Ami Navon wrote-

Must install older version 1.14 for ruby/gsl to work

It is not actual now for gsl-1.16/ruby-2.0.0

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  • Actually, on Mac OS X Yosemite new install, I needed these instructions but 1.15 ... `curl -O http://ftp.unicamp.br/pub/gnu/gsl/gsl-1.15.tar.gz` – Alien Life Form Aug 19 '15 at 04:33
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lsb_release -a Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
ruby --version ruby 2.1.2p95

Important: Install gsl development package (https://askubuntu.com/a/490475/121418)
sudo apt-get install libgsl0-dev

Add this line in Gemfile
gem 'rb-gsl'

Install gem via Terminal
bundle install

Verify
bundle show rb-gsl
/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/rb-gsl-1.16.0.4

gsl-config --version
1.15

Use require "gsl" in ruby file if necessary

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Ivan Chau
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This also works on ubuntu 16.04 LTS and ruby 2.2.2
sudo apt-get install libgsl0-dev

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