al-folio: libv8-node (16.10.0.0) installation error

Describe the bug Upon forking and then cloning the current version of the repo to my machine, bundle install produces an error, specifically:

An error occurred while installing libv8-node (16.10.0.0), and Bundler cannot
continue.

In Gemfile:
  mini_racer was resolved to 0.6.2, which depends on
    libv8-node

To Reproduce I followed the instructions in the “Getting Started” guide, under “Local Setup”.

System

OS: Windows 10 64-bit
Browser: Chrome Version 101.0.4951.67
Jekyll version: 4.2.2
Ruby version: 3.1.2p20 (2022-04-12 revision 4491bb740a)

Additional context I’m completely new to Jekyll and Ruby, so apologies if I’m missing something obvious.

Below I paste the full output. This was after the second time I ran bundle install

$ bundle install
Fetching gem metadata from https://rubygems.org/........
Resolving dependencies....
Using bundler 2.3.14
Using concurrent-ruby 1.1.10
Using minitest 5.15.0
Using public_suffix 4.0.7
Using latex-decode 0.3.2
Using namae 1.1.1
Using rexml 3.2.5
Using colorator 1.1.0
Using crass 1.0.6
Using cssminify2 2.0.1
Using eventmachine 1.2.7
Using http_parser.rb 0.8.0
Using execjs 2.8.1
Using racc 1.6.0
Using sax-machine 1.3.2
Using ffi 1.15.5 (x64-mingw-ucrt)
Using forwardable-extended 2.6.0
Using gemoji 3.0.1
Using htmlcompressor 0.4.0
Using mime-types-data 3.2022.0105
Using multi_xml 0.6.0
Using rb-fsevent 0.11.1
Using liquid 4.0.3
Using mercenary 0.4.0
Using rouge 3.28.0
Using safe_yaml 1.0.5
Using unicode-display_width 1.8.0
Using jekyll-email-protect 1.1.0
Using json 2.6.2
Using jekyll-twitter-plugin 2.1.0
Using unicode_utils 1.4.0
Using webrick 1.7.0
Using i18n 1.10.0
Using tzinfo 2.0.4
Using addressable 2.8.0
Using citeproc 1.0.10
Using csl 1.6.0
Using bibtex-ruby 6.0.0
Using nokogiri 1.13.6 (x64-mingw-ucrt)
Using kramdown 2.4.0
Using em-websocket 0.5.3
Fetching libv8-node 16.10.0.0
Using mime-types 3.4.1
Using sassc 2.4.0
Using rb-inotify 0.10.1
Using pathutil 0.16.2
Using uglifier 4.2.0
Using terminal-table 2.0.0
Using json-minify 0.0.3
Using activesupport 7.0.3
Using citeproc-ruby 1.1.14
Using csl-styles 1.0.1.11
Using loofah 2.18.0
Using httparty 0.20.0
Using kramdown-parser-gfm 1.1.0
Using jekyll-sass-converter 2.2.0
Using listen 3.7.1
Using feedjira 3.2.1
Using html-pipeline 2.14.1
Using jekyll-watch 2.2.1
Using jekyll 4.2.2
Using jekyll-archives 2.2.1
Using jekyll-diagrams 0.10.0
Using jekyll-feed 0.16.0
Using jekyll-imagemagick 1.4.0
Using jekyll-minifier 0.1.10
Using jekyll-paginate-v2 3.0.0
Using jekyll-scholar 7.1.0
Using jekyll-sitemap 1.4.0
Using jekyll-target-blank 2.0.0
Using jemoji 0.12.0
Installing libv8-node 16.10.0.0 with native extensions
Gem::Ext::BuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

current directory:
C:/myprograms/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/libv8-node-16.10.0.0/ext/libv8-node
C:/myprograms/Ruby31-x64/bin/ruby.exe -I C:/myprograms/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/3.1.0
-r ./siteconf20220601-33924-8or4sy.rb extconf.rb
creating Makefile
C:/myprograms/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/libv8-node-16.10.0.0/ext/libv8-node/builder.rb:12:in
`build_libv8!': failed to download node 16.10.0 (Libv8::Node::BuilderError)
from
C:/myprograms/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/libv8-node-16.10.0.0/ext/libv8-node/location.rb:30:in
`install!'
        from extconf.rb:9:in `<main>'
==== in
C:/myprograms/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/libv8-node-16.10.0.0/ext/libv8-node
==== running
C:/myprograms/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/libv8-node-16.10.0.0/libexec/download-node

extconf failed, exit code 1

Gem files will remain installed in
C:/myprograms/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/libv8-node-16.10.0.0 for
inspection.
Results logged to
C:/myprograms/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/extensions/x64-mingw-ucrt/3.1.0/libv8-node-16.10.0.0/gem_make.out

  C:/myprograms/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/3.1.0/rubygems/ext/builder.rb:95:in `run'
C:/myprograms/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/3.1.0/rubygems/ext/ext_conf_builder.rb:47:in
`block in build'
  C:/myprograms/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/3.1.0/tempfile.rb:317:in `open'
C:/myprograms/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/3.1.0/rubygems/ext/ext_conf_builder.rb:26:in
`build'
C:/myprograms/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/3.1.0/rubygems/ext/builder.rb:161:in
`build_extension'
C:/myprograms/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/3.1.0/rubygems/ext/builder.rb:195:in `block
in build_extensions'
  C:/myprograms/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/3.1.0/rubygems/ext/builder.rb:192:in `each'
C:/myprograms/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/3.1.0/rubygems/ext/builder.rb:192:in
`build_extensions'
C:/myprograms/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/3.1.0/rubygems/installer.rb:853:in
`build_extensions'
C:/myprograms/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/bundler-2.3.14/lib/bundler/rubygems_gem_installer.rb:71:in
`build_extensions'
C:/myprograms/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/bundler-2.3.14/lib/bundler/rubygems_gem_installer.rb:28:in
`install'
C:/myprograms/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/bundler-2.3.14/lib/bundler/source/rubygems.rb:204:in
`install'
C:/myprograms/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/bundler-2.3.14/lib/bundler/installer/gem_installer.rb:54:in
`install'
C:/myprograms/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/bundler-2.3.14/lib/bundler/installer/gem_installer.rb:16:in
`install_from_spec'
C:/myprograms/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/bundler-2.3.14/lib/bundler/installer/parallel_installer.rb:186:in
`do_install'
C:/myprograms/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/bundler-2.3.14/lib/bundler/installer/parallel_installer.rb:177:in
`block in worker_pool'
C:/myprograms/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/bundler-2.3.14/lib/bundler/worker.rb:62:in
`apply_func'
C:/myprograms/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/bundler-2.3.14/lib/bundler/worker.rb:57:in
`block in process_queue'
C:/myprograms/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/bundler-2.3.14/lib/bundler/worker.rb:54:in
`loop'
C:/myprograms/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/bundler-2.3.14/lib/bundler/worker.rb:54:in
`process_queue'
C:/myprograms/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/bundler-2.3.14/lib/bundler/worker.rb:91:in
`block (2 levels) in create_threads'

An error occurred while installing libv8-node (16.10.0.0), and Bundler cannot
continue.

In Gemfile:
  mini_racer was resolved to 0.6.2, which depends on
    libv8-node

About this issue

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State: closed
Created 2 years ago
Reactions: 30
Comments: 40 (1 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

Unable to continue past ex.1. 'mini-racer' broken on Windows Unable to install 'mini_racer' dependencies on Windows based machines. https://github.com/rubyjs/mini_racer/issues/252 https://github.co... — committed to Cell9/Web-palvelinohjelmointi-Ruby-on-Rails by Cell9 2 years ago
Update Gemfile commenting out miniracer based on advice at https://github.com/alshedivat/al-folio/issues/691 — committed to yazenkk/yazenkk.github.io by yazenkk 2 years ago

Most upvoted comments

I have had the same Issue on Window 10, as many of you suggested I fixed it in the following way:

Installing Node.Js
Adding gem 'wdm', '~> 0.1.0' on the GemFile => Groups
Commented out # gem 'mini_racer'
Running jekyll with: $ jekyll serve command

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…and it finally works!I was afraid that the more I tried to solve it, the smarter the problem became!

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Thank you All for being so Helpful! 🙏

+24

MorbeusDesign on Nov 9, 2022

There could be a possible loophole, just disable (comment out) the min_racer or therubyracer plugin. And install Node.js. Then try to build again.

But make sure when committing to the remote, the plugin should not be disabled.

+11

rohandebsarkar on Jun 5, 2022

I can successfully run the website locally on my computer. However, for deployment, I face the following error. Note that I’m a windows user and a beginner (thanks for your patience)!

$ bin/deploy --user
Deploying...
Source branch: source
Deploy branch: master
Do you want to proceed? [y/N] y
Switched to branch 'source'
Deleted branch master (was b4306f1).
Switched to a new branch 'master'
Configuration file: C:/Users/Amirhossein/Documents/ahmoosavi.github.io/_config.yml
            Source: C:/Users/Amirhossein/Documents/ahmoosavi.github.io
       Destination: C:/Users/Amirhossein/Documents/ahmoosavi.github.io/_site
 Incremental build: disabled. Enable with --incremental
      Generating...
"Fetching external posts from medium.com:"
"...fetching https://medium.com/@al-folio/displaying-external-posts-on-your-al-folio-blog-b60a1d241a0a?source=rss-17feae71c3c4------2"
         AutoPages: Disabled/Not configured in site.config.
        Pagination: Complete, processed 1 pagination page(s)
       Imagemagick: Disabled in site.config
       Jekyll Feed: Generating feed for posts
   Jekyll Diagrams: Command Not Found: mmdc
                    ------------------------------------------------
      Jekyll 4.3.1   Please append `--trace` to the `build` command
                     for any additional information or backtrace.
                    ------------------------------------------------
C:/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/execjs-2.8.1/lib/execjs/external_runtime.rb:39:in `exec': SyntaxError: Expected identifier, string or number (ExecJS::RuntimeError)
        from C:/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/execjs-2.8.1/lib/execjs/external_runtime.rb:14:in `initialize'
        from C:/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/execjs-2.8.1/lib/execjs/runtime.rb:72:in `new'
        from C:/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/execjs-2.8.1/lib/execjs/runtime.rb:72:in `compile'
        from C:/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/execjs-2.8.1/lib/execjs/module.rb:27:in `compile'
        from C:/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/uglifier-4.2.0/lib/uglifier.rb:184:in `context'
        from C:/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/uglifier-4.2.0/lib/uglifier.rb:221:in `run_uglifyjs'
        from C:/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/uglifier-4.2.0/lib/uglifier.rb:166:in `compile'
        from C:/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/htmlcompressor-0.4.0/lib/htmlcompressor/compressor.rb:546:in `compress_javascript'
        from C:/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/htmlcompressor-0.4.0/lib/htmlcompressor/compressor.rb:502:in `block in process_script_blocks'
        from C:/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/htmlcompressor-0.4.0/lib/htmlcompressor/compressor.rb:501:in `map!'
        from C:/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/htmlcompressor-0.4.0/lib/htmlcompressor/compressor.rb:501:in `process_script_blocks'
        from C:/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/htmlcompressor-0.4.0/lib/htmlcompressor/compressor.rb:490:in `process_preserved_blocks'
        from C:/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/htmlcompressor-0.4.0/lib/htmlcompressor/compressor.rb:216:in `compress'
        from C:/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/jekyll-minifier-0.1.10/lib/jekyll-minifier.rb:79:in `output_html'
        from C:/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/jekyll-minifier-0.1.10/lib/jekyll-minifier.rb:32:in `output_compressed'
        from C:/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/jekyll-minifier-0.1.10/lib/jekyll-minifier.rb:182:in `write'
        from C:/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/jekyll-4.3.1/lib/jekyll/site.rb:231:in `block in write'
        from C:/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/jekyll-4.3.1/lib/jekyll/site.rb:368:in `block (2 levels) in each_site_file'
        from C:/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/jekyll-4.3.1/lib/jekyll/site.rb:365:in `each'
        from C:/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/jekyll-4.3.1/lib/jekyll/site.rb:365:in `block in each_site_file'
        from C:/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/jekyll-4.3.1/lib/jekyll/site.rb:364:in `each'
        from C:/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/jekyll-4.3.1/lib/jekyll/site.rb:364:in `each_site_file'
        from C:/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/jekyll-4.3.1/lib/jekyll/site.rb:230:in `write'
        from C:/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/jekyll-4.3.1/lib/jekyll/site.rb:82:in `process'
        from C:/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/jekyll-4.3.1/lib/jekyll/command.rb:28:in `process_site'
        from C:/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/jekyll-4.3.1/lib/jekyll/commands/build.rb:65:in `build'
        from C:/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/jekyll-4.3.1/lib/jekyll/commands/build.rb:36:in `process'
        from C:/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/jekyll-4.3.1/lib/jekyll/command.rb:91:in `block in process_with_graceful_fail'
        from C:/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/jekyll-4.3.1/lib/jekyll/command.rb:91:in `each'
        from C:/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/jekyll-4.3.1/lib/jekyll/command.rb:91:in `process_with_graceful_fail'
        from C:/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/jekyll-4.3.1/lib/jekyll/commands/build.rb:18:in `block (2 levels) in init_with_program'
        from C:/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/mercenary-0.4.0/lib/mercenary/command.rb:221:in `block in execute'
        from C:/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/mercenary-0.4.0/lib/mercenary/command.rb:221:in `each'
        from C:/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/mercenary-0.4.0/lib/mercenary/command.rb:221:in `execute'
        from C:/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/mercenary-0.4.0/lib/mercenary/program.rb:44:in `go'
        from C:/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/mercenary-0.4.0/lib/mercenary.rb:21:in `program'
        from C:/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/jekyll-4.3.1/exe/jekyll:15:in `<top (required)>'
        from C:/Ruby31-x64/bin/jekyll:25:in `load'
        from C:/Ruby31-x64/bin/jekyll:25:in `<main>'

+10

ahmoosavi on Oct 26, 2022

Summary:

Installing Node.Js
Adding gem ‘wdm’, ‘~> 0.1.0’ on the GemFile => Groups
Commented out # gem ‘mini_racer’
use gem env to check your gem path, and then go to gems\jekyll-imagemagick-1.4.0\lib\jekyll-imagemagick\convert.rb in my ruby directory and change the command from convert to magick convert.

Everything works, but I have not tried to push it to GitHub yet.

jiefengsun on Mar 4, 2023

@petrasvestartas I could not figure out the mini_racer problem, so I commented it out in my Gemfile for now. I wanted to mention that your other error may be due to the fact that convert.exe is a windows application that is being called instead of magick convert.

To fix it, I went into gems\jekyll-imagemagick-1.4.0\lib\jekyll-imagemagick\convert.rb in my ruby directory and changed the command from convert to magick convert.

roobnloo on Jul 30, 2022

I had this problem, but solved it by including this line in the gemfile gem 'wdm', '>=0.1.0'

This tells Ruby you’re on a windows and libv8 loads successfully. However, you need to comment it out for deployment.

mitchellostrow on Aug 4, 2022

I had the same issue and solved it by doing these (I’m on macOS 12.4):

commenting out mini_racer and installing Node.js
gem uninstall nokogiri, then choose the one with “arm64” suffix
bundle install
brew install imagemagick (thanks jbudlender for this tip)

I also did a bunch of other things but I think these are all that matter. Hope that helps!

kailih on Jun 17, 2022

@Xiangyue-Zhang Can you provide a link to your repository?

For the record,we can’t link to twitter.com when we use terminal in China,even if we use a vpn.

Same problem here in Iran, I just deleted this twitter markdown file.

pourmand1376 on Mar 4, 2023

My computer doesn’t have the capability to use Docker, are we going to close it and ask everyone to get a better computer? It doesn’t hurt to keep it open until someone finds a solution, does it?

Hmm, That’s just odd to me. It seems to me that docker can be installed on any computer. Docker can even be installed on small low-resource raspberry pie computers. Are you sure about that?

pourmand1376 on Dec 10, 2022

I was facing the same problem with the libv8-node (16.10.0.0) installation error on Windows until yesterday. But, I just followed the steps in this https://www.taniarascia.com/make-a-static-website-with-jekyll/, mentioned in the Readme file under the ‘Getting started’ section, and was able to solve this issue.

gautamigolani on Aug 3, 2022