Errors when installing cocoapods with gem

Question

I am using macOS Mojave and when I try to install cocoapods using gem I am getting the following error.

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Answer 1

just spent my day figuring out solution, I am using MacOS Big Sur Beta 8. to upgrade cocoapods with gem, try this:

1. install rbenv

• git clone https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv.git ~/.rbenv

• cd ~/.rbenv && src/configure && make -C src

• Add ~/.rbenv/bin to your $PATH for access to the rbenv command-line utility. see: https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv#basic-github-checkout

• make sure export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/shims:${PATH}" was added to your $PATH

2. xcode-select --switch /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Develope

3. gem install cocoapods should work like a charm!

Answer 2

This helped/ worked for me like charm:

# brew cleanup -d -v    
# brew install cocoapods

P.S.: You should have Homebrew installed. You can use below command to install brew:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"

Good luck :)

Answer 3

For me use a command sudo gem install cocoapods -v 1.8.4 instead of sudo gem install cocoapods

Reference: https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/issues/9568#issuecomment-599235420

Answer 4

sudo xcode-select --switch /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools

ruby -rrbconfig -e 'puts RbConfig::CONFIG["rubyhdrdir"]'

Answer 5

1. Run

   ruby -rrbconfig -e 'puts RbConfig::CONFIG["rubyhdrdir"]'
   

   to figure out your ruby configuration.
2. If the output is a nonexistent MacOSX10.15 path. Like

   /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.15.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.3/usr/include/ruby-2.3.0
   

   then you should correct the configuration by doing next step.
3. Run

   sudo xcode-select --switch /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools
   

4. You can run

   ruby -rrbconfig -e 'puts RbConfig::CONFIG["rubyhdrdir"]'
   

   again to see if the path has changed.
5. The output should be something like

   /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX10.14.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.3/usr/include/ruby-2.3.0
   

Now you can run gem install to install cocoapods!

Answer 6

The answer for this can be found here here although it is unrelated to this question. Below is a snippet of the answer which works best.

For Xcode 11 on macOS 10.14, this can happen even after installing Xcode and installing command-line tools and accepting the license with

sudo xcode-select --install
sudo xcodebuild -license accept

The issue is that Xcode 11 ships the macOS 10.15 SDK which includes headers for ruby2.6, but not for macOS 10.14's ruby2.3. You can verify that this is your problem by running

ruby -rrbconfig -e 'puts RbConfig::CONFIG["rubyhdrdir"]'

which on macOS 10.14 with Xcode 11 prints the non-existent path

/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.15.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.3/usr/include/ruby-2.3.0

However, Xcode 11 installs a macOS 10.14 SDK within /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOS10.14.sdk. It isn't necessary to pollute the system directories by installing the old header files as suggested in other answers. Instead, by selecting that SDK, the appropriate ruby2.3 headers will be found:

sudo xcode-select --switch /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools
ruby -rrbconfig -e 'puts RbConfig::CONFIG["rubyhdrdir"]'

This should now correctly print

/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX10.14.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.3/usr/include/ruby-2.3.0

Likewise, gem install should work while that SDK is selected.

To switch back to using the current Xcode 11 SDK, use

sudo xcode-select --switch /Applications/Xcode.app