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During the installation of Ruby 3.4.3 via RVM on macOS (ARM / Apple Silicon), you may encounter the following error:
rvm install "ruby-3.4.3"ruby-3.4.3 - #removing src/ruby-3.4.3 - please waitSearching for binary rubies, this might take some time.No binary rubies available for: osx/26.2/arm64/ruby-3.4.3.Continuing with compilation. Please read 'rvm help mount' to get more information on binary rubies.Checking requirements for osx.Installing requirements for osx.Updating system - please waitInstalling required packages: pkg-config - please waitCertificates bundle '/opt/homebrew/etc/[email protected]/cert.pem' is already up to date.Requirements installation successful.Installing Ruby from source to: /Users/username/.rvm/rubies/ruby-3.4.3, this may take a while depending on your cpu(s)...ruby-3.4.3 - #downloading ruby-3.4.3, this may take a while depending on your connection...ruby-3.4.3 - #extracting ruby-3.4.3 to /Users/username/.rvm/src/ruby-3.4.3 - please waitruby-3.4.3 - #configuring - please waitruby-3.4.3 - #post-configuration - please waitruby-3.4.3 - #compiling - please wait Error running '__rvm_make -j10',please read /Users/username/.rvm/log/1767089315_ruby-3.4.3/make.log There has been an error while running make. Halting the installation.
The logs from make will look like this:
+__rvm_make:0> make -j10file2lastrev.rb: does not seem to be under a vcs: . BASERUBY = /Users/username/.rvm/rubies/ruby-3.4.4/bin/ruby --disable=gems CC = gcc LD = ld LDSHARED = gcc -dynamiclib CFLAGS = -O3 -I/opt/homebrew/opt/libyaml/include -I/opt/homebrew/opt/libksba/include -I/opt/homebrew/opt/readli$ XCFLAGS = -fno-strict-overflow -fvisibility=hidden -fexcess-precision=standard -DRUBY_EXPORT -I. -I.ext/include$ CPPFLAGS = -I/opt/homebrew/opt/node@22/include -D_XOPEN_SOURCE -D_DARWIN_C_SOURCE -D_DARWIN_UNLIMITED_SELECT -D$ DLDFLAGS = -L/opt/homebrew/opt/libyaml/lib -L/opt/homebrew/opt/libksba/lib -L/opt/homebrew/opt/readline/lib -L/$ SOLIBS = -ldl -lobjc -lpthread LANG = C.UTF-8 LC_ALL = LC_CTYPE = UTF-8 MFLAGS = - --jobserver-fds=3,4 -j RUSTC = no YJIT_RUSTC_ARGS = --crate-name=yjit --crate-type=staticlib --edition=2021 -g -C lto=thin -C opt-level=3 -C over$Apple clang version 17.0.0 (clang-1700.6.3.2)Target: arm64-apple-darwin25.2.0Thread model: posixInstalledDir: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bincompiling ./main.ccompiling dmydln.ccompiling miniinit.ctranslating probes probes.d
RVM cannot find a pre-built binary for this OS version and is attempting to compile Ruby from source, but the compilation fails.
Reason
Ruby 3.4.x requires OpenSSL 3, but by default, RVM:
- either pulls in OpenSSL 1.1
- or does not pass the path to OpenSSL at all
This causes make to fail with an error.
Solution
You need to explicitly specify the path to OpenSSL 3, installed via Homebrew.
Make sure OpenSSL 3 is installed:
brew install openssl@3
Install Ruby with the explicit parameter:
rvm install ruby-3.4.3 --with-openssl-dir=$(brew --prefix)/opt/openssl@3
After this, Ruby will successfully:
- compile
- install
- create gemsets
- become available for use
Useful to know
- The message No binary rubies available - is not an error, it merely means that RVM has switched to source compilation mode
- Ruby 3.4.x on macOS ARM currently often requires manual configuration
- A similar issue may occur with other version managers
If Ruby 3.4.x cannot be installed via RVM on macOS - explicitly linking openssl@3 almost always helps.
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