From: Chris Shea <cmshea@...>
Date: 2007-03-06T11:00:07+09:00
Subject: Re: gem install mysql failure

On Mar 5, 6:39 pm, Paul Hammer <paul_ham...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Chris Shea wrote:
> > On Mar 5, 3:47 pm, Paul Hammer <paul_ham...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
> >>         --with-opt-lib
> >>         --without-mysql-include=${mysql-dir}/include
> >>         --with-mysqlclientlib
> >> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (RuntimeError)
> >> 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.
>
> I'm new to gem also.  Is the mswin32 option a command line option to
> gem?
>
> What is the One-Click Installer?  Where can I read about this?
>
> Paul
>
> --
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Paul,

What I meant was: when you run 'gem install mysql' choose an install
option with (mswin32) at the end.  So when faced with this:

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

Choose 1 or 2.

The Ruby One-Click Installer is found here: http://rubyinstaller.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl
It installs Ruby, and sets environment options, and installs a lot of
helpful tools (like rubygems and the Win32API bindings).  I assumed
your installation of Ruby was handled by it, many Windows
installations are.

The other main possibility is that Ruby is installed on top of Cygwin
(http://cygwin.com/), but I'm guessing it's not.

HTH,
Chris