Dependency error on jekyll-remote-theme around libcurl

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Dependency error on jekyll-remote-theme around libcurl

SeanKilleen opened this issue 7 years ago · comments

Sean Killeen commented 7 years ago

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This issue affects

Building sites locally

What did you do (e.g., steps to reproduce)

I'm assisting someone in getting their site converted from Blogger to GitHub.

Clone the repo (in this case, dennisdoomen\dennisdoomen.github.io)
Check the gemfile (it only includes gem "github-pages", group: :jekyll_plugins)
Run bundle install
Run bundle update github-pages
See no errors
Run bundle exec jekyll serve

What did you expect to happen?

The site to be built & shown locally

What happened instead?

I see an error:

Dependency Error: Yikes! It looks like you don't have jekyll-remote-theme or one of its dependencies installed. In order to use Jekyll as currently configured, you'll need to install this gem. The full error message from Ruby is: 'Could not open library 'libcurl': The specified module could not be found. . Could not open library 'libcurl.dll': The specified module could not be found. . Could not open library 'libcurl.so.4': The specified module could not be found. . Could not open library 'libcurl.so.4.dll': The specified module could not be found. ' If you run into trouble, you can find helpful resources at
https://jekyllrb.com/help/!

Additional information

Link to the live site (if applicable): http://dennisdoomen.github.io
Link to the source repo (if applicable): http://github.com/dennisdoomen/dennisdoomen.github.io.
Ruby version: ruby 2.5.0p0 (2017-12-25 revision 61468) [x64-mingw32]
Bundler version: Bundler version 1.15.1
OS: Windows 10

Sean Killeen · Answer 1 · Mon Feb 05 2018 02:55:49 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I thought this might have been an issue with PowerShell using curl as an alias for Web-Invoke so I:

Removed the alias from my Powershell Profile
Confirmed that curl no longer worked.
Installed curl via chocolatey using choco install curl.
Restarted
Attempted bundle exec jekyll serve again.

No luck.

Sean Killeen · Answer 2 · Mon Feb 05 2018 03:48:59 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

A workaround for me was described in this post:

Downloaded libcurl DLLs
Copied them into my ruby install's bin folder

This appears to get me past the hurdle, but it feels a biiiiiit hacky.

Parker Moore · Answer 3 · Thu Dec 05 2019 00:28:02 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I know this is an old issue, but this should now no longer be a problem! jekyll-remote-theme migrated to use Ruby's built-in Net::HTTP library which does not use/require libcurl: benbalter/jekyll-remote-theme#26