From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2004-12-18T04:26:10+09:00
Subject: Re: MySQL/Ruby on Windows

Williams, Chris wrote:
>
> I'm trying to install the C-based MySQL/Ruby library on my WinXP box and
> MySQL 4.1.7
>
> Running "ruby extconf.rb -with-mysql-dir=C:/mysql-4.1.7-win" doesn't
> seem to work, I get:
>
> checking for mysql_query() in mysqlclient.lib... no
> checking for main() in m.lib... yes
> checking for mysql_query() in mysqlclient.lib... no
> checking for main() in z.lib... no
> checking for mysql_query() in mysqlclient.lib... no
> checking for main() in socket.lib... no
> checking for mysql_query() in mysqlclient.lib... no
> checking for main() in nsl.lib... no
> checking for mysql_query() in mysqlclient.lib... no
>
>
> Am I missing something here? Should I have put some special DLLs into my
> PATH or something? Is there already a pre-compiled /packaged version of
> the C-based MySQL driver for x86/Win32?

Starting with version 4.1.7 MySQL is using a new authentication algorithm
that is not compatible with older client software. You might be running into
this problem. For more information about this issue, see
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Old_client.html.

Curt