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

The --libs part of that looks wrong.
I would expect something like "... -lmysqlclient -lssl -lcrypto”, not a -l 
without library name.
Not sure why that might be.

On 16 January 2019 7:39:23 am James Brown via dbi-users 
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Sure:
>
> $ /usr/local/bin/mysql_config
> Usage: /usr/local/bin/mysql_config [OPTIONS]
> Options:
>        --cflags         [-I/usr/local/Cellar/mysql-connector-c/6.1.11/include ]
>        --cxxflags       [-I/usr/local/Cellar/mysql-connector-c/6.1.11/include ]
>        --include        [-I/usr/local/Cellar/mysql-connector-c/6.1.11/include]
>        --libs           [-L/usr/local/Cellar/mysql-connector-c/6.1.11/lib -l ]
>        --libs_r         [-L/usr/local/Cellar/mysql-connector-c/6.1.11/lib -l ]
>        --plugindir      [/usr/local/Cellar/mysql-connector-c/6.1.11/lib/plugin]
>        --socket         [/tmp/mysql.sock]
>        --port           [0]
>        --version        [6.1.11]
>        --variable=VAR   VAR is one of:
>                pkgincludedir [/usr/local/Cellar/mysql-connector-c/6.1.11/include]
>                pkglibdir     [/usr/local/Cellar/mysql-connector-c/6.1.11/lib]
>                plugindir     [/usr/local/Cellar/mysql-connector-c/6.1.11/lib/plugin]
>
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> James.
>
>
>> On 16 Jan 2019, at 5:31 pm, Daniël van Eeden <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> 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.