Hello,

I tried to install Nikolai Weibull's Ruby Character Encodings Library [1] with Ruby 1.9, but didn't succeed.

$ sudo gem1.9 install character-encodings
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing character-encodings:
	ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

/opt/local/bin/ruby1.9 extconf.rb install character-encodings
extconf.rb:4: invalid multibyte char
extconf.rb:4: invalid multibyte char
extconf.rb:4: syntax error, unexpected $end, expecting keyword_end
  checking_for "¡Æ#{opt}¡Ç option to compiler" do
                         ^
Gem files will remain installed in /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.0/gems/character-encodings-0.4.1 for inspection.
Results logged to /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.0/gems/character-encodings-0.4.1/ext/encoding/character/utf-8/gem_make.out

I downloaded the gem, extracted it, added a magic comment at the top of the file and manually called the configure command, that worked.

$ ruby1.9 extconf.rb install character-encodings
checking for ¡Æ-std=c99¡Ç option to compiler... yes
checking for ¡Æ-finline-functions¡Ç option to compiler... yes
checking for ¡Æ-Wall¡Ç option to compiler... yes
checking for ¡Æ-Wextra¡Ç option to compiler... yes
checking for ¡Æ-Wwrite-strings¡Ç option to compiler... yes
checking for ¡Æ-Waggregate-return¡Ç option to compiler... yes
checking for ¡Æ-Wmissing-prototypes¡Ç option to compiler... yes
checking for ¡Æ-Wmissing-declarations¡Ç option to compiler... yes
checking for ¡Æ-Wnested-externs¡Ç option to compiler... yes
checking for ¡Æ-Wundef¡Ç option to compiler... yes
checking for ¡Æ-Wpointer-arith¡Ç option to compiler... yes
checking for ¡Æ-Wcast-align¡Ç option to compiler... yes
checking for ¡Æ-Werror¡Ç option to compiler... yes
checking for ¡Æ-Winline¡Ç option to compiler... yes
checking for assert.h... yes
checking for limits.h... yes
checking for locale.h... yes
checking for stdbool.h... yes
checking for stddef.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for stdio.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for wchar.h... yes
creating Makefile

But then the make command failed.

$ make
/usr/bin/gcc-4.0 -I. -I/opt/local/include/ruby-1.9.0/i686-darwin9.3.0 -I/opt/local/include/ruby-1.9.0 -I. -DHAVE_ASSERT_H -DHAVE_LIMITS_H -DHAVE_LOCALE_H -DHAVE_STDBOOL_H -DHAVE_STDDEF_H -DHAVE_STDINT_H -DHAVE_STDIO_H -DHAVE_STDLIB_H -DHAVE_STRING_H -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H -DHAVE_WCHAR_H -I/opt/local/include -D_XOPEN_SOURCE -D_DARWIN_C_SOURCE   -fno-common -O2  -fno-common -pipe -fno-common  -std=c99 -finline-functions -Wall -Wextra -Wwrite-strings -Waggregate-return -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wnested-externs -Wundef -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Werror -Winline  -o break.o -c break.c
/usr/bin/gcc-4.0 -I. -I/opt/local/include/ruby-1.9.0/i686-darwin9.3.0 -I/opt/local/include/ruby-1.9.0 -I. -DHAVE_ASSERT_H -DHAVE_LIMITS_H -DHAVE_LOCALE_H -DHAVE_STDBOOL_H -DHAVE_STDDEF_H -DHAVE_STDINT_H -DHAVE_STDIO_H -DHAVE_STDLIB_H -DHAVE_STRING_H -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H -DHAVE_WCHAR_H -I/opt/local/include -D_XOPEN_SOURCE -D_DARWIN_C_SOURCE   -fno-common -O2  -fno-common -pipe -fno-common  -std=c99 -finline-functions -Wall -Wextra -Wwrite-strings -Waggregate-return -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wnested-externs -Wundef -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Werror -Winline  -o decompose.o -c decompose.c
/usr/bin/gcc-4.0 -I. -I/opt/local/include/ruby-1.9.0/i686-darwin9.3.0 -I/opt/local/include/ruby-1.9.0 -I. -DHAVE_ASSERT_H -DHAVE_LIMITS_H -DHAVE_LOCALE_H -DHAVE_STDBOOL_H -DHAVE_STDDEF_H -DHAVE_STDINT_H -DHAVE_STDIO_H -DHAVE_STDLIB_H -DHAVE_STRING_H -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H -DHAVE_WCHAR_H -I/opt/local/include -D_XOPEN_SOURCE -D_DARWIN_C_SOURCE   -fno-common -O2  -fno-common -pipe -fno-common  -std=c99 -finline-functions -Wall -Wextra -Wwrite-strings -Waggregate-return -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wnested-externs -Wundef -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Werror -Winline  -o private.o -c private.c
/usr/bin/gcc-4.0 -I. -I/opt/local/include/ruby-1.9.0/i686-darwin9.3.0 -I/opt/local/include/ruby-1.9.0 -I. -DHAVE_ASSERT_H -DHAVE_LIMITS_H -DHAVE_LOCALE_H -DHAVE_STDBOOL_H -DHAVE_STDDEF_H -DHAVE_STDINT_H -DHAVE_STDIO_H -DHAVE_STDLIB_H -DHAVE_STRING_H -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H -DHAVE_WCHAR_H -I/opt/local/include -D_XOPEN_SOURCE -D_DARWIN_C_SOURCE   -fno-common -O2  -fno-common -pipe -fno-common  -std=c99 -finline-functions -Wall -Wextra -Wwrite-strings -Waggregate-return -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wnested-externs -Wundef -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Werror -Winline  -o properties.o -c properties.c
/usr/bin/gcc-4.0 -I. -I/opt/local/include/ruby-1.9.0/i686-darwin9.3.0 -I/opt/local/include/ruby-1.9.0 -I. -DHAVE_ASSERT_H -DHAVE_LIMITS_H -DHAVE_LOCALE_H -DHAVE_STDBOOL_H -DHAVE_STDDEF_H -DHAVE_STDINT_H -DHAVE_STDIO_H -DHAVE_STDLIB_H -DHAVE_STRING_H -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H -DHAVE_WCHAR_H -I/opt/local/include -D_XOPEN_SOURCE -D_DARWIN_C_SOURCE   -fno-common -O2  -fno-common -pipe -fno-common  -std=c99 -finline-functions -Wall -Wextra -Wwrite-strings -Waggregate-return -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wnested-externs -Wundef -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Werror -Winline  -o rb_utf_aref.o -c rb_utf_aref.c
rb_utf_aref.c:8:16: error: re.h: No such file or directory
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
rb_utf_aref.c: In function ¡Ærb_str_subpat¡Ç:
rb_utf_aref.c:44: warning: implicit declaration of function ¡Ærb_reg_search¡Ç
rb_utf_aref.c:44: warning: nested extern declaration of ¡Ærb_reg_search¡Ç
rb_utf_aref.c: In function ¡Ærb_utf_aref_default¡Ç:
rb_utf_aref.c:65: error: ¡Æstruct RString¡Ç has no member named ¡Æptr¡Ç
rb_utf_aref.c:65: error: ¡Æstruct RString¡Ç has no member named ¡Ælen¡Ç
make: *** [rb_utf_aref.o] Error 1

What can I do to make it work?

Stefan

[1] http://bitwi.se/software/ruby/character-encodings/