Can't install thrift gem on OS X El Capitan

Question

Trying to install thift gem after OSX El Capitan upgrade:

    $ gem install thrift
    Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
    ERROR:  Er         


        

Answer 1

Try this

gem install thrift -v '0.9.0' -- --with-cppflags='-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=0'

Answer 2

You need to escape double quotes.

$ bundle config build.thrift "--with-cppflags=\"-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=0 -Wno-shift-negative-value\""

$ cat ~/.bundle/config

BUNDLE_BUILD__THRIFT: --with-cppflags="-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=0 -Wno-shift-negative-value"

Answer 3

I have a solution for you! Hopefully.

Had this same problem the other day.

The problem is in the clang compiler that El Capitan comes bundled with. I'm sure it screws up other issues but this is one point that I had a lot of issues with.

Try running the following command and let me know how it goes!

gem install thrift -- --with-cppflags=\"-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=0 -Wno-shift-negative-value\"