From: "R. Mark Volkmann" <mark@...>
Date: 2005-04-02T13:56:22+09:00
Subject: Re: MySQL under latest one-click installer

Quoting Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@scriptolutions.com>:

> Hello R.,
>
> RMV> Maybe the instructions people pointed me to work find under platforms
> other than
> RMV> Windows or with other versions of Ruby than what is in the latest
> one-click
> RMV> installer.
>
> RMV> Accessing MySQL seems like a very basic requirement.
> RMV> Surely someone working under Windows has needed to do this.
>
> You can use the pure ruby implementation of the mysql client. This one
> works fine in a multithreaded application but is much slower. Its just
> one file and a "require" statement.

I think that will be fine for my needs.

I downloaded ruby-mysql-0.2.6.tar.gz from
http://www.tmtm.org/en/ruby/mysql/README_en.html.

I unzipped it.

I ran "ruby setup.rb" and got
./setup.rb:8:in ``': No such file or directory - mysql_config --socket
(Errno::ENOENT) from ./setup.rb:8

Line 8 contains
sock = `mysql_config --socket`.chomp

I assume mysql_config is supposed to be an executable in the bin directory of
MySQL.  It's not in mine.  I have version 4.0.20a of MySQL.

Any ideas why the supplied install script doesn't work?

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R. Mark Volkmann
Partner, Object Computing, Inc.