Ror + Unable to Install Tiny_Tds

ROR + Unable to install tiny_tds

Did you install freeTDS prior to install the gem?

sudo apt-get install freetds-dev

Then

gem install tiny_tds

Can´t install tiny_tds in Windows 10

Well, thanks to Jared Beck, I finally was able to precompile the FreeTDS binaries. I used Ruby on Rails in the past, but never needed to do such thing, so I didn´t know the syntax. I thought that running the command gem install tiny_tds included the FreeTDS installation. Then I noticed the configuration options and tried running gem install tiny_tds -- --with-freetds-dir, but didn´t know that the command required the directory as an argument.

Finally, I downloaded the FreeTDS Windows binary from https://sourceforge.net/projects/freetdswindows/, extracted it in C:, and ran the following command:

gem install tiny_tds -- --with-freetds-dir=C:\freetds-1.00

Unable to `gem install tiny_tds` OS X Mavericks

I solved this problem by explicitly specifying the 64 bit architecture:

$ brew install freetds
$ sudo ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" gem install tiny_tds

The reason is that during the gem building process, mkmf will try to look for 32 bit version of freetds, which is not available. The error message in mkmf.log said:

ld: warning: ignoring file /usr/local/lib/libsybdb.dylib, file was built for x86_64 which is not the architecture being linked (i386): /usr/local/lib/libsybdb.dylib
Undefined symbols for architecture i386:
  "_tdsdbopen", referenced from:
      _t in conftest-a13287.o
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture i386

Installing tiny_tds gem on Ubuntu 20.04 fails

I had a similar problem installing gems on Ubuntu 20.04. with RVM und Ruby 2.7.
As stated, the make process could not find the mkdir command.

$ which mkdir
/bin/mkdir

Since the process is searching for the command in /usr/bin/mkdir it cannot be found. I could fix this by creating a symbolic link to the correct path:

sudo ln -s /bin/mkdir /usr/bin/mkdir

Failing to bundle install tiny_tds on Mac OS X 10.8 with Homebrew FreeTds

Well, unfortunately I've now got it working and have NO CLUE how I've done it but I will list all of the things I've done so far in this answer to solve it.

In the end, bundle install with standard gem 'tiny_tds', '0.5.1' ended up working fine.
It's running Ruby version 1.9.3-p194 via RVM.

This is where the gold is I'm fairly sure...

I used rvm pkg install iconv and rvm reinstall 1.9.3 --with-iconv-dir=$rvm_path/usr

Once this completed, I deleted all old gem folders...
I switched bundle config path to match the new ruby path...

Then did bundle install, and boom.

It's also using iconv 1.13 instead of 1.14 not sure if that matters.

I hope this helps anyone... it's definitely been a huge learning experience for me.

Rails 4: Error when installing tiny_tds gem?

Looks like you don't have freetds installed on this machine:

sudo apt-get install freetds-dev

If you see the details of the freetds-dev package you will see it has the missing file sybfront.h

There is no gem that I know for freetds and building the tiny_tds gem requires it to compile. However it should be possible for you build your own version of the gem using MiniPortile.

Rather than using the normal gem install mechanism you need to clone the tiny_tds from GitHub and then build a native gem for your environment. This process will include downloading a specific version of freetds which is used to compile the gem against.

This should get you round the problem of not being able to install freetds-dev package, but does have the disadvantage that if tiny_tds gem is updated in the future you will need to repeat this process each time - you can't simply take advantage of bundle update.

The steps you need to follow are detailed here.

installing tiny_tds gives error on on mac os 10.10.5

This is what fixed it for me:

brew install freetds

sudo ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" gem install tiny_tds

Unable to install tiny_tds on mac

So in the end, it turned out that the machine I received was not wiped clean from a previous user and all of my problems are due to there being another gcc as well as ancient tds libraries in /usr/local. Blowing away all that stuff has resolved my issues.

Homebrew, FreeTDS, tiny_tds. Why can't I install tiny_tds after successfully installing FreeTDS?

Hallelujah!

After trying absolutely everything I could think of, including reading the mkmf.log file and a plethora of different installation parameters, I've arrived at a solution that worked for me.

In the end, the solution was relatively straight-forward, though difficult to figure out. The issue was that it was trying to build with the wrong architecture in mind (32-bit). Using the flag ARCHFLAGS to explicitly specify 64-bit, the installation worked immediately, as follows:

sudo ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" gem install tiny_tds

I hope somebody finds this useful--I didn't find anything anywhere saying this was a solution.

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