From: hemant <gethemant@...>
Date: 2008-07-05T16:28:28+09:00
Subject: Re: MySQL/Ruby Module

On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Justin To <tekmc@hotmail.com> wrote:
> After downloading the mysql-ruby-2.8pre4 from
> [http://tmtm.org/downloads/mysql/ruby/]...I stuck it into
> C:\ruby\lib\mysql-ruby-2.8pre4.
>
> The instructions on http://www.tmtm.org/en/mysql/ruby/ says I need to
> run the command % ruby extconf.rb:
>
> checking for main() in libmysql.lib... no
>
> is the error that I get.
>
> I need to access MySQL with Ruby, but I keep running into all sorts of
> problems!
>

You need mysql client libraries and header files. On ubuntu hardy, I
would get them with:

apt-get install mysql-common mysql-client libmysqlclient15-dev