From: Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
Date: 2009-05-29T07:57:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Installing Ruby 1.9.1 Binary on Windows Vista

> Can you point me to the rubyinstaller dev list?

http://rubyforge.org/mail/?group_id=167

> I did manage to find one fix:
> 
> gem install kwatch-mysql-ruby --platform=mswin32 
> --source=http://gems.github.com/
> 
> It's supposed to be a working mysql gem for 1.9.1.  However, it gives me 
> the following error:
> 
> *** ERROR: can't find mysql client library.
> *** extconf.rb failed ***

I believe you'll need the mysql headers and libraries installed


> I also saw that if you use linux you can use mysql 5.1 but with windows 
> you need to use 5.0 - I'm not sure why this is and not sure how that 
> will affect me going forward.  All of my websites are hosted and use 
> mysql 5.1 - they are also on linux/unix boxes.  I just program on a 
> windows box for convenience.

Yeah I'm not sure why yet--no one's yet looked into it :)
Luis did some good work towards his: 
http://github.com/luislavena/mysql-gem/tree/master
however, it's for mingw + 1.8.6

I wasn't able to get mysqlplus to compile for windows yet, either 
<sigh>.

Looks like the only way I know of is (assuming ruby 1.9 with devkit)
1) download "mysql 5.0.x windows without installer"
2) unzip, put it in c:\mysql
3) download mysql 2.8.1 binary from tmtm 
http://www.tmtm.org/en/mysql/ruby/
4) edit extconf so that anywhere it says mswin32 it now says 
mswin32|mingw
 4a) make sure that mysql's bin are *not* in your path
5) run ruby extconf.rb -- --with-mysql-include=c:/mysql/include 
--with-mysql-lib=c:/mysql/lib/opt
6) run make, then run make install
7) copy libmysql.dll to your path
8) run ruby -e 'require "mysql"'

if it works you might be one of the first people ever to use it with 1.9
enjoy1
-=r

> I appreciate everyone who has helped me out through some of this.  I've 
> managed to learn a lot today (even with my frustrations) so that's not a 
> bad thing..

Yeah 1.9 on windows is still pretty cutting edge.  Sharp enough to cut 
yourself, most definitely.
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