linking with cc failed

[jiangxiaoqiang]

when I am using this command to install diesel_cli in macOS Big Sur:

cargo install diesel_cli

but shows this error:

error: aborting due to previous error

error: linking with `cc` failed: exit status: 1
  |
  = note: "cc" "-m64" "-arch" "x86_64" "/var/folders/sr/16lcx_p11rg0ntdgs673s6z00000gn/T/cargo-installDDeugC/release/build/proc-macro2-2ba00320e48a1652/build_script_build-2ba00320e48a1652.build_script_build.7yyzps2z-cgu.0.rcgu.o" "/var/folders/sr/16lcx_p11rg0ntdgs673s6z00000gn/T/cargo-installDDeugC/release/build/proc-macro2-2ba00320e48a1652/build_script_build-2ba00320e48a1652.build_script_build.7yyzps2z-cgu.1.rcgu.o" "/var/folders/sr/16lcx_p11rg0ntdgs673s6z00000gn/T/cargo-installDDeugC/release/build/proc-macro2-2ba00320e48a1652/build_script_build-2ba00320e48a1652.build_script_build.7yyzps2z-cgu.10.rcgu.o" "/var/folders/sr/16lcx_p11rg0ntdgs673s6z00000gn/T/cargo-installDDeugC/release/build/proc-macro2-2ba00320e48a1652/build_script_build-2ba00320e48a1652.build_script_build.7yyzps2z-cgu.11.rcgu.o" "/var/folders/sr/16lcx_p11rg0ntdgs673s6z00000gn/T/cargo-installDDeugC/release/build/proc-macro2-2ba00320e48a1652/build_script_build-2ba00320e48a1652.build_script_build.7yyzps2z-cgu.12.rcgu.o" "/var/folders/sr/16lcx_p11rg0ntdgs673s6z00000gn/T/cargo-installDDeugC/release/build/proc-macro2-2ba00320e48a1652/build_script_build-2ba00320e48a1652.build_script_build.7yyzps2z-cgu.13.rcgu.o" "/var/folders/sr/16lcx_p11rg0ntdgs673s6z00000gn/T/cargo-installDDeugC/release/build/proc-macro2-2ba00320e48a1652/build_script_build-2ba00320e48a1652.build_script_build.7yyzps2z-cgu.14.rcgu.o" "/var/folders/sr/16lcx_p11rg0ntdgs673s6z00000gn/T/cargo-installDDeugC/release/build/proc-macro2-2ba00320e48a1652/build_script_build-2ba00320e48a1652.build_script_build.7yyzps2z-cgu.15.rcgu.o" "/var/folders/sr/16lcx_p11rg0ntdgs673s6z00000gn/T/cargo-installDDeugC/release/build/proc-macro2-2ba00320e48a1652/build_script_build-2ba00320e48a1652.build_script_build.7yyzps2z-cgu.2.rcgu.o" "/var/folders/sr/16lcx_p11rg0ntdgs673s6z00000gn/T/cargo-installDDeugC/release/build/proc-macro2-2ba00320e48a1652/build_script_build-2ba00320e48a1652.build_script_build.7yyzps2z-cgu.3.rcgu.o" "/var/folders/sr/16lcx_p11rg0ntdgs673s6z00000gn/T/cargo-installDDeugC/release/build/proc-macro2-2ba00320e48a1652/build_script_build-2ba00320e48a1652.build_script_build.7yyzps2z-cgu.4.rcgu.o" "/var/folders/sr/16lcx_p11rg0ntdgs673s6z00000gn/T/cargo-installDDeugC/release/build/proc-macro2-2ba00320e48a1652/build_script_build-2ba00320e48a1652.build_script_build.7yyzps2z-cgu.5.rcgu.o" "/var/folders/sr/16lcx_p11rg0ntdgs673s6z00000gn/T/cargo-installDDeugC/release/build/proc-macro2-2ba00320e48a1652/build_script_build-2ba00320e48a1652.build_script_build.7yyzps2z-cgu.6.rcgu.o" "/var/folders/sr/16lcx_p11rg0ntdgs673s6z00000gn/T/cargo-installDDeugC/release/build/proc-macro2-2ba00320e48a1652/build_script_build-2ba00320e48a1652.build_script_build.7yyzps2z-cgu.7.rcgu.o" "/var/folders/sr/16lcx_p11rg0ntdgs673s6z00000gn/T/cargo-installDDeugC/release/build/proc-macro2-2ba00320e48a1652/build_script_build-2ba00320e48a1652.build_script_build.7yyzps2z-cgu.8.rcgu.o" "/var/folders/sr/16lcx_p11rg0ntdgs673s6z00000gn/T/cargo-installDDeugC/release/build/proc-macro2-2ba00320e48a1652/build_script_build-2ba00320e48a1652.build_script_build.7yyzps2z-cgu.9.rcgu.o" "/var/folders/sr/16lcx_p11rg0ntdgs673s6z00000gn/T/cargo-installDDeugC/release/build/proc-macro2-2ba00320e48a1652/build_script_build-2ba00320e48a1652.5b2ojmhf0b4w8xv.rcgu.o" "-L" "/var/folders/sr/16lcx_p11rg0ntdgs673s6z00000gn/T/cargo-installDDeugC/release/deps" "-L" "/Users/dolphin/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-apple-darwin/lib/rustlib/x86_64-apple-darwin/lib" "/Users/dolphin/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-apple-darwin/lib/rustlib/x86_64-apple-darwin/lib/libstd-7b3af7e771532c4d.rlib" "/Users/dolphin/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-apple-darwin/lib/rustlib/x86_64-apple-darwin/lib/libpanic_unwind-a312a9d36c2b4585.rlib" "/Users/dolphin/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-apple-darwin/lib/rustlib/x86_64-apple-darwin/lib/libobject-0056ecd921542c45.rlib" "/Users/dolphin/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-apple-darwin/lib/rustlib/x86_64-apple-darwin/lib/libaddr2line-136473faa654159d.rlib" "/Users/dolphin/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-apple-darwin/lib/rustlib/x86_64-apple-darwin/lib/libgimli-8948906b8f5e65a2.rlib" "/Users/dolphin/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-apple-darwin/lib/rustlib/x86_64-apple-darwin/lib/libstd_detect-349769333cecb33c.rlib" "/Users/dolphin/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-apple-darwin/lib/rustlib/x86_64-apple-darwin/lib/librustc_demangle-2836451a12f8e8a3.rlib" "/Users/dolphin/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-apple-darwin/lib/rustlib/x86_64-apple-darwin/lib/libhashbrown-82701dea42c34fd2.rlib" "/Users/dolphin/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-apple-darwin/lib/rustlib/x86_64-apple-darwin/lib/librustc_std_workspace_alloc-b9c0c998e7e580c1.rlib" "/Users/dolphin/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-apple-darwin/lib/rustlib/x86_64-apple-darwin/lib/libunwind-b80d5b40251f2607.rlib" "/Users/dolphin/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-apple-darwin/lib/rustlib/x86_64-apple-darwin/lib/libcfg_if-48a685da8003dd08.rlib" "/Users/dolphin/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-apple-darwin/lib/rustlib/x86_64-apple-darwin/lib/liblibc-6c310d5e4d35fd71.rlib" "/Users/dolphin/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-apple-darwin/lib/rustlib/x86_64-apple-darwin/lib/liballoc-49c2386372f9dd61.rlib" "/Users/dolphin/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-apple-darwin/lib/rustlib/x86_64-apple-darwin/lib/librustc_std_workspace_core-e7ab9cb891a80b09.rlib" "/Users/dolphin/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-apple-darwin/lib/rustlib/x86_64-apple-darwin/lib/libcore-f2fbb54bfcfb6a1f.rlib" "/Users/dolphin/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-apple-darwin/lib/rustlib/x86_64-apple-darwin/lib/libcompiler_builtins-7f68ec848bc59e6b.rlib" "-lSystem" "-lresolv" "-lc" "-lm" "-liconv" "-L" "/Users/dolphin/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-apple-darwin/lib/rustlib/x86_64-apple-darwin/lib" "-o" "/var/folders/sr/16lcx_p11rg0ntdgs673s6z00000gn/T/cargo-installDDeugC/release/build/proc-macro2-2ba00320e48a1652/build_script_build-2ba00320e48a1652" "-Wl,-dead_strip" "-nodefaultlibs" "-e" "__start" "-static" "-nostartfiles"
  = note: ld: library not found for -lSystem
          clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
          

error: aborting due to previous error

error: failed to compile `diesel_cli v1.4.1`, intermediate artifacts can be found at `/var/folders/sr/16lcx_p11rg0ntdgs673s6z00000gn/T/cargo-installDDeugC`

Caused by:
  build failed
(base) 

what should I do to fix it?

[weiznich]

I do not have access to a MacOS system other than our CI system, so I cannot help much here. See here for how the CI system installs all required dependencies.
That written: The error message mentions that it misses a System library. Diesel does not have a direct dependency to this library as far as I'm aware of. For me this sounds like this dependency is brought in by another intermediate dependency, so please checkout the list of required dependencies from any installed library. Those are platform, version and sometimes even depended on how a specific library was installed.

[jiangxiaoqiang]

On windows and linux, you can build normally with cargo build --release. On Mac Os, you need to set additional linker arguments. The simplest solution is to create a .cargo/config with the following content:

[target.x86_64-apple-darwin]
rustflags = [
  "-C", "link-arg=-undefined",
  "-C", "link-arg=dynamic_lookup",
]

rust-lang/rust#60149