Re: Problem installing 4.006 under cygwin - "Cannot find the file 'mysql_config'!"

If anyone has any information  I can add/change to make this better, 
please let me know - I'd even be glad to give CPAN commit status to 
anyone wanting to contribute. The windows issues are hard nuts to crack ;)

--Patrick


David Vergin wrote:

> Greetings, Tom. I know your pain well...
>
> on 4/5/2008 10:51 AM Tom Cooper said the following:
>
>> I... have Cygwin 2.573.2.2 MySQL version 5.0.51a, perl
>> version 5.8.8, and DBD-mysql-4.006
>> I thought I'd follow the instructions ... here:
>> http://search.cpan.org/~capttofu/DBD-mysql-4.005/lib/DBD/mysql.pm
>> [but get...]
>>    Can't exec "mysql_config": No such file or directory at Makefile.PL
>>    line 76.
>
>
> There are two _other_ sets of installation instructions bundled with 
> DBD::mysql -- in the README and INSTALL files. They are more complete 
> than what is found in DBD/mysql.pm.
>
> But confusingly in regard to Cygwin, those two sets of instructions 
> differ from each other. The INSTALL instructions will get you farther. 
> But still, under Cygwin's Perl 5.10 they failed (see my original post 
> in this thread last month). You'll probably have better luck under 
> Perl 5.8. (See also my note in the last paragraph of this email on 
> Cygwin recently down-grading Perl.)
>
> The copy of mysql_config that you report finding in 
> /cygdrive/c/mysql/mysql-5.0.51a/ looks like the one for your
> _Windows_XP_ install of mysql. That won't help you here.
>
> In addition to your copy of mysql for WinXP, you need to compile a 
> client-only version of the mysql tools _under_Cygwin_ and then use the 
> resulting copy of mysql_config for your install of DBD::mysql. The 
> process is a bit of a bother, but is well described in the INSTALL 
> file and worked fine for me when I did this a few years back (under 
> Perl 5.8 or 5.6).
>
> All of this is much more fully described in the instructions under 
> "Special Systems - Windows/Cygwin" in the bundled INSTALL file...
>
> Check here:
> http://search.cpan.org/~capttofu/DBD-mysql-4.006/lib/DBD/mysql/INSTALL.pod#Windows/CygWin 
>
>
> or if that gets broken this will get you there:
>       http://tinyurl.com/6dzhvb
>    and scroll down to "Special Systems - Windows/Cygwin"
>
> Please let us know if DBD::mysql's INSTALL instructions work under 
> Cygwin Perl 5.8.8. My current setup is working and I'm hesitant to 
> mess with it to test things.  ;-)
>
> BTW, since I posted on this issue under Cygwin Perl 5.10 last month, 
> Cygwin seems to have mysteriously down-graded perl from 5.10 to 5.8. 
> After a recent Cygwin setup.exe update for other reasons, my previous 
> install of DBD::mysql now magically works again without any effort on 
> my part. Go figure!
>
> HTH
> David
>


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