Failed building puma 3.11.0 on Ubuntu 17.10

Question

Tried to install puma with the following command

sudo gem install puma -v '3.11.0'

Got the below message:

Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing puma:
    ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

    current directory: /var/lib/gems/2.3.0/gems/puma-3.11.0/ext/puma_http11
/usr/bin/ruby2.3 -r ./siteconf20180412-95606-8c9cui.rb extconf.rb
checking for BIO_read() in -lcrypto... *** 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=/usr/bin/$(RUBY_BASE_NAME)2.3
    --with-puma_http11-dir
    --without-puma_http11-dir
    --with-puma_http11-include
    --without-puma_http11-include=${puma_http11-dir}/include
    --with-puma_http11-lib
    --without-puma_http11-lib=${puma_http11-dir}/lib
    --with-openssl-dir
    --without-openssl-dir
    --with-openssl-include
    --without-openssl-include=${openssl-dir}/include
    --with-openssl-lib
    --without-openssl-lib=${openssl-dir}/lib
    --with-cryptolib
    --without-cryptolib
/usr/lib/ruby/2.3.0/mkmf.rb:456:in `try_do': The compiler failed to generate an executable file. (RuntimeError)
You have to install development tools first.
    from /usr/lib/ruby/2.3.0/mkmf.rb:541:in `try_link0'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/2.3.0/mkmf.rb:556:in `try_link'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/2.3.0/mkmf.rb:765:in `try_func'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/2.3.0/mkmf.rb:997:in `block in have_library'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/2.3.0/mkmf.rb:942:in `block in checking_for'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/2.3.0/mkmf.rb:350:in `block (2 levels) in postpone'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/2.3.0/mkmf.rb:320:in `open'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/2.3.0/mkmf.rb:350:in `block in postpone'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/2.3.0/mkmf.rb:320:in `open'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/2.3.0/mkmf.rb:346:in `postpone'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/2.3.0/mkmf.rb:941:in `checking_for'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/2.3.0/mkmf.rb:992:in `have_library'
    from extconf.rb:8:in `block in <main>'
    from extconf.rb:8:in `each'
    from extconf.rb:8:in `find'
    from extconf.rb:8:in `<main>'

To see why this extension failed to compile, please check the mkmf.log which can be found here:

  /var/lib/gems/2.3.0/extensions/x86_64-linux/2.3.0/puma-3.11.0/mkmf.log

extconf failed, exit code 1

Gem files will remain installed in /var/lib/gems/2.3.0/gems/puma-3.11.0 for inspection.
Results logged to /var/lib/gems/2.3.0/extensions/x86_64-linux/2.3.0/puma-3.11.0/gem_make.out

The mkmf.log looks like this:

"gcc -o conftest -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/ruby-2.3.0 -I/usr/include/ruby-2.3.0/ruby/backward -I/usr/include/ruby-2.3.0 -I. -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2   -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/ruby2.3-E8maFs/ruby2.3-2.3.3=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fPIC conftest.c  -L. -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -L. -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -fstack-protector -rdynamic -Wl,-export-dynamic     -lruby-2.3  -lpthread -lgmp -ldl -lcrypt -lm   -lc"
checked program was:
/* begin */
1: #include "ruby.h"
2:
3: int main(int argc, char **argv)
4: {
5:   return 0;
6: }
/* end */

Update 1: Run command dpkg -S libcrypt*:

libc6-dev:amd64: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypt.a
libcryptsetup4:amd64: /usr/share/doc/libcryptsetup4
libssl-dev:amd64: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so
libssl-dev:amd64: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.a
libcryptsetup4:amd64: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcryptsetup.so.4.7.0
libcryptsetup4:amd64: /usr/share/doc/libcryptsetup4/copyright
libc6:amd64: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypt-2.26.so
libc6-dev:amd64: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypt.so
libcryptsetup4:amd64: /usr/share/doc/libcryptsetup4/changelog.Debian.gz
libssl-dev:amd64: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/libcrypto.pc
libc6:amd64: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypt.so.1
libcryptsetup4:amd64: /usr/share/doc/libcryptsetup4/NEWS.Debian.gz
libcryptsetup4:amd64: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcryptsetup.so.4
libssl1.0.0:amd64: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.1.0.0

Update 2: Result of ls -l /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypt*:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   60288 1月  12 20:42 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypt.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      35 1月  12 20:42 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypt.so -> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypt.so.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4706666 3月  27 18:17 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      40 3月  27 18:17 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so -> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.1.0.0

What is going on?

Note: I have installed libssl-dev, libssl1.0-dev and libgmp3-dev. None of them fixed the problem.

So, you probably don't have installed `ruby2.3-dev` package. Install and try once again. I think it is the reason of you issue. — mariaczi, Apr 12 '18 at 09:04
Could you provide output from this command `dpkg -S libcrypt*`? — mariaczi, Apr 12 '18 at 10:37
Try to install puma with disabled ssl support: `DISABLE_SSL=true gem install puma -v '3.11.0'`. If it will be work, that means the installer can't find required ssl libraries. — mariaczi, Apr 12 '18 at 11:58
But it is not a solution for this issue. Now we should find the requested library for supporting SSL. Are you have this package "libssl1.0.0" installed? — mariaczi, Apr 12 '18 at 13:06
Please provide output for this: `ls -l /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypt*` — mariaczi, Apr 12 '18 at 13:12

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 12 '18 at 13:53

Try to create conft.c file with content:

#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
  return 0;
}

and next in the same directory when you will have this file, run this command:

gcc -o conft -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -O2  -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fPIC conft.c  -L. -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -L. -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -fstack-protector -rdynamic -Wl,-export-dynamic  -lpthread -lgmp -ldl -lcrypt -lm   -lc

Put here the result. If you got only "conft" binary file the compilation finish with success and we need to look inside "ruby.h" file.

Failed building puma 3.11.0 on Ubuntu 17.10

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