I'm trying to install libxml-ruby.
I have installed libxml2, libxslt and coreutils
I have also read other posts regarding the issue but none solved it for me.
brew list libxslt
/opt/boxen/homebrew/Cellar/libxslt/1.1.28_1/bin/xslt-config
/opt/boxen/homebrew/Cellar/libxslt/1.1.28_1/bin/xsltproc
/opt/boxen/homebrew/Cellar/libxslt/1.1.28_1/include/libexslt/ (3 files)
/opt/boxen/homebrew/Cellar/libxslt/1.1.28_1/include/libxslt/ (21 files)
/opt/boxen/homebrew/Cellar/libxslt/1.1.28_1/lib/libexslt.0.dylib
/opt/boxen/homebrew/Cellar/libxslt/1.1.28_1/lib/libxslt.1.dylib
/opt/boxen/homebrew/Cellar/libxslt/1.1.28_1/lib/pkgconfig/ (2 files)
/opt/boxen/homebrew/Cellar/libxslt/1.1.28_1/lib/ (5 other files)
/opt/boxen/homebrew/Cellar/libxslt/1.1.28_1/share/aclocal/libxslt.m4
/opt/boxen/homebrew/Cellar/libxslt/1.1.28_1/share/doc/ (90 files)
/opt/boxen/homebrew/Cellar/libxslt/1.1.28_1/share/man/ (3 files)
brew list libxml2
/opt/boxen/homebrew/Cellar/libxml2/2.9.4/bin/xml2-config
/opt/boxen/homebrew/Cellar/libxml2/2.9.4/bin/xmlcatalog
/opt/boxen/homebrew/Cellar/libxml2/2.9.4/bin/xmllint
/opt/boxen/homebrew/Cellar/libxml2/2.9.4/include/libxml2/ (47 files)
/opt/boxen/homebrew/Cellar/libxml2/2.9.4/lib/libxml2.2.dylib
/opt/boxen/homebrew/Cellar/libxml2/2.9.4/lib/cmake/libxml2/libxml2-config.cmake
/opt/boxen/homebrew/Cellar/libxml2/2.9.4/lib/pkgconfig/libxml-2.0.pc
/opt/boxen/homebrew/Cellar/libxml2/2.9.4/lib/ (3 other files)
/opt/boxen/homebrew/Cellar/libxml2/2.9.4/share/aclocal/libxml.m4
/opt/boxen/homebrew/Cellar/libxml2/2.9.4/share/doc/ (153 files)
/opt/boxen/homebrew/Cellar/libxml2/2.9.4/share/gtk-doc/ (55 files)
/opt/boxen/homebrew/Cellar/libxml2/2.9.4/share/man/ (4 files)
gem install libxml-ruby produces the following error:
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR: Error installing libxml-ruby:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
current directory: /opt/rubies/2.3.0/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/libxml-ruby-2.9.0/ext/libxml
/opt/boxen/rbenv/versions/2.3.0/bin/ruby -r ./siteconf20160630-68248-1qaz7dk.rb extconf.rb
checking for libxml/xmlversion.h in /opt/include/libxml2,/opt/local/include/libxml2,/usr/local/include/libxml2,/usr/include/libxml2... no
*** 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=/opt/boxen/rbenv/versions/2.3.0/bin/$(RUBY_BASE_NAME)
--with-xml2-config
--without-xml2-config
--with-xml2-dir
--without-xml2-dir
--with-xml2-include
--without-xml2-include=${xml2-dir}/include
--with-xml2-lib
--without-xml2-lib=${xml2-dir}/lib
extconf failure: need libxml2.
Install the library or try one of the following options to extconf.rb:
--with-xml2-config=/path/to/xml2-config
--with-xml2-dir=/path/to/libxml2
--with-xml2-lib=/path/to/libxml2/lib
--with-xml2-include=/path/to/libxml2/include
To see why this extension failed to compile, please check the mkmf.log which can be found here:
/opt/boxen/rbenv/versions/2.3.0/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/extensions/x86_64-darwin-14/2.3.0-static/libxml-ruby-2.9.0/mkmf.log
extconf failed, exit code 1
Gem files will remain installed in /opt/boxen/rbenv/versions/2.3.0/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/libxml-ruby-2.9.0 for inspection.
Results logged to /opt/boxen/rbenv/versions/2.3.0/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/extensions/x86_64-darwin-14/2.3.0-static/libxml-ruby-2.9.0/gem_make.out
The high level issue is shown here:
checking for libxml/xmlversion.h in /opt/include/libxml2,/opt/local/include/libxml2,/usr/local/include/libxml2,/usr/include/libxml2... no
Basically, the installer is telling you it can't find libxml/xmlversion.h but more generally it most likely can't find your libxml2 location. It tells you which four directories it's looking in so the first step is to check those directories to see if libxml2 is there.
Assuming it's not in any of those four locations, you need to find it. Run find / -name xmlversion.h (might need sudo) to figure out where libxml2 got installed. Based on this answer I'm guessing your issue is that brew installed it to /usr/local/Cellar/libxml2 but you should confirm that. Once you have the location you can manually point your gem install command to it. Something like this: (but fill in path/to with your actual path)
gem install libxml-ruby --with-xml2-dir=/path/to/libxml2 --with-xml2-lib=/path/to/libxml2/lib --with-xml2-include=/path/to/libxml2/include