Re: macOS Mojave "Can't link/include C library ' ', aborting"

Can you share the output of mysql_config?

On 16 January 2019 07:27:39 James Brown via dbi-users <[email protected]> 
wrote:
> I have macOS Mojave and am not able to install DBD::mysql - can anyone help?
>
> Perl, [email protected] and mysql-connector-c installed via Homebrew.
>
>
> I get:
>
>
> $ sudo /usr/local/bin/perl Makefile.PL
> Password:
>
>
> PLEASE NOTE:
>
> For 'make test' to run properly, you must ensure that the
> database user 'root' can connect to your MySQL server
> and has the proper privileges that these tests require such
> as 'drop table', 'create table', 'drop procedure', 'create procedure'
> as well as others.
>
> mysql> grant all privileges on test.* to 'root'@'localhost' identified by 
> 's3kr1t';
>
> You can also optionally set the user to run 'make test' with:
>
> perl Makefile.PL --testuser=username
>
> I will use the following settings for compiling and testing:
>
>  cflags        (mysql_config) = 
>  -I/usr/local/Cellar/mysql-connector-c/6.1.11/include
>  embedded      (guessed     ) =
>  ldflags       (guessed     ) =
>  libs          (mysql_config) = 
>  -L/usr/local/Cellar/mysql-connector-c/6.1.11/lib -l
>  mysql_config  (guessed     ) = mysql_config
>  nocatchstderr (default     ) = 0
>  nofoundrows   (default     ) = 0
>  nossl         (default     ) = 0
>  testdb        (default     ) = test
>  testhost      (default     ) =
>  testpassword  (default     ) =
>  testport      (default     ) =
>  testsocket    (default     ) =
>  testuser      (guessed     ) = root
>
> To change these settings, see 'perl Makefile.PL --help' and
> 'perldoc DBD::mysql::INSTALL'.
>
> Checking if libs are available for compiling...
> Can't link/include C library '', aborting.
>
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>
> Thanks, James.