From: Chris Shea <cmshea@...>
Date: 2007-03-06T08:00:06+09:00
Subject: Re: gem install mysql failure

On Mar 5, 3:47 pm, Paul Hammer <paul_ham...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I've been using Ruby with Watir for a few months now to scrape data
> off of internal web pages where I work.  I'm fairly happy with the
> results,
> although I want to improve these processes.  I want to put this data
> into
> mysql, so I tried using this command to load mysql:
>
> gem install mysql
>
> The result I got is below.  Can anyone help me here?
>
> Paul
>
> Select which gem to install for your platform (i386-mswin32)
>  1. mysql 2.7.3 (mswin32)
>  2. mysql 2.7.1 (mswin32)
>  3. mysql 2.7 (ruby)
>  4. mysql 2.6 (ruby)
>  5. mysql 2.5.1 (ruby)
>  6. Cancel installation> 5
>
> Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
> *** extconf.rb failed ***
> Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of
> necessary libraries and/or headers.  Check the mkmf.log file for more
> details.  You may need configuration options.
>
> Provided configuration options:
>         --with-opt-dir
>         --without-opt-dir
>         --with-opt-include
>         --without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
>         --with-opt-lib
>         --without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
>         --with-make-prog
>         --srcdir=.
>         --curdir
>         --ruby=c:/program files/ruby/bin/ruby
>         --with-mysql-config
>         --without-mysql-config
>         --with-mysql-dir
>         --without-mysql-dir
>         --with-mysql-include
>         --without-mysql-include=${mysql-dir}/include
>         --with-mysql-lib
>         --without-mysql-lib=${mysql-dir}/lib
>         --with-mysqlclientlib
>         --without-mysqlclientlib
>         --with-mlib
>         --without-mlib
>         --with-mysqlclientlib
>         --without-mysqlclientlib
>         --with-zlib
>         --without-zlib
>         --with-mysqlclientlib
>         --without-mysqlclientlib
>         --with-socketlib
>         --without-socketlib
>         --with-mysqlclientlib
>         --without-mysqlclientlib
>         --with-nsllib
>         --without-nsllib
>         --with-mysqlclientlib
>         --without-mysqlclientlib
>
> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (RuntimeError)
>     ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
> Gem files will remain installed in c:/Program
> Files/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gem
> mysql-2.5.1 for inspection.
>
> Results logged to c:/Program
> Files/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.5.1/gem
> ake.out
>
> --
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Try one of the mswin32 options instead.  I think the rule is if you
installed via the One-Click Installer, you have to.