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* A C compiler (e.g. Xcode on OSX, gcc on everything else)
* libffi development library - this is commonly in the libffi-dev or libffi-devel
+On Linux systems running with [PaX](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PaX) (Gentoo, Alpine, etc.) FFI may trigger `mprotrect` errors. You may need to disable [mprotect](https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Grsecurity/Appendix/Grsecurity_and_PaX_Configuration_Options#Restrict_mprotect.28.29) for ruby (`paxctl -m [/path/to/ruby]`) for the time being until a solution is found.
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## Installation
From rubygems: