Install id3lib-ruby gem on OS X Leopard 4

Posted by John Wulff Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:12:00 GMT

After a few hours of struggling to get id3lib-ruby to install on my Leopard machine I came across http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=18544:
Posted By: Robin Stocker
Date: 2007-10-28 18:12
Summary: Install on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Project: id3lib-ruby

Here’s a quick tip for people having difficulties installing id3lib-ruby on the newest OS X:

http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/ruby/wiki/Troubleshooting#IcannotbuildrubymysqlonLeopardwithmysql.combinaries

In short, here’s how to install id3lib-ruby (after having installed id3lib):

sudo -s
ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386" gem install id3lib-ruby

Thanks a lot Robin, I was starting to go crazy…