Mac Rails gem install mysql2 fail

My Mac OS X version is 10.6.6 Ruby version is 1.9.2 Rails version is 3.1 Please note that I have installed MAMP before. When I type gem install mysql2, a message shows:

yeung-catoteki-iMac:~ catoyeung$ gem install mysql2 Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing mysql2: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

    /Users/catoyeung/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p180/bin/ruby extconf.rb checking for rb_thread_blocking_region()... yes checking for mysql.h... yes checking for errmsg.h... yes checking for mysqld_error.h... yes creating Makefile

make gcc -I. -I/Users/catoyeung/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p180/include/ ruby-1.9.1/x86_64-darwin10.4.0 -I/Users/catoyeung/.rvm/rubies/ ruby-1.9.2-p180/include/ruby-1.9.1/ruby/backward -I/Users/ catoyeung/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p180/include/ruby-1.9.1 -I. - DHAVE_RB_THREAD_BLOCKING_REGION -DHAVE_MYSQL_H -DHAVE_ERRMSG_H - DHAVE_MYSQLD_ERROR_H -D_XOPEN_SOURCE -D_DARWIN_C_SOURCE -I/usr/local/ mysql/include -g -Os -arch i386 -fno-common -D_P1003_1B_VISIBLE - DSIGNAL_WITH_VIO_CLOSE -DSIGNALS_DONT_BREAK_READ - DIGNORE_SIGHUP_SIGQUIT -DDONT_DECLARE_CXA_PURE_VIRTUAL -fno-common - O3 -ggdb -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-parentheses -Wpointer- arith -Wwrite-strings -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wshorten-64- to-32 -Wno-long-long -fno-common -pipe -Wall -funroll-loops -o client.o -c client.c In file included from /Users/catoyeung/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p180/ include/ruby-1.9.1/ruby.h:32,              from ./mysql2_ext.h:8,              from client.c:1: /Users/catoyeung/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p180/include/ruby-1.9.1/ruby/ ruby.h:108: error: size of array ‘ruby_check_sizeof_long’ is negative /Users/catoyeung/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p180/include/ruby-1.9.1/ruby/ ruby.h:112: error: size of array ‘ruby_check_sizeof_voidp’ is negative In file included from /Users/catoyeung/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p180/ include/ruby-1.9.1/ruby/intern.h:29,              from /Users/catoyeung/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p180/include/ ruby-1.9.1/ruby/ruby.h:1327,              from /Users/catoyeung/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p180/include/ ruby-1.9.1/ruby.h:32,              from ./mysql2_ext.h:8,              from client.c:1: /Users/catoyeung/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p180/include/ruby-1.9.1/ruby/ st.h:69: error: size of array ‘st_check_for_sizeof_st_index_t’ is negative make: *** [client.o] Error 1

Gem files will remain installed in /Users/catoyeung/.rvm/gems/ ruby-1.9.2- p180@rails3_1/gems/mysql2-0.3.7 for inspection. Results logged to /Users/catoyeung/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180@rails3_1/ gems/mysql2-0.3.7/ext/mysql2/gem_make.out

Experts, please help.

As far as I remember, u have to install macOs sdk and then reinstall ruby

Have you upgraded to Lion since your original installation? If so, you need to reinstall the unix tools from Xcode and that should alleviate the issue for you. Hope that helps.