From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2010-08-03T12:00:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Installing mysql gem on Win7 x64 for MySQL 5.1.x

On Aug 2, 11:55 pm, Luis Lavena <luislav...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 2, 11:01 pm, Geoff Rowell <geoff.row...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Okay. The "mingw32" platform isn't intended for Cygwin. However, I think
> > you're focusing on a minor detail and missing these key points:
>
> > 1. You need to specify the "x86-mswin32" platform when loading the gem
> > on a 64-bit Win7 system running the mswin32 flavor of Ruby.
>
> Unless you installed a 64bits version of ruby, that is the only way.
>
> Ruby 32bits (from garbagecollect) install gems with x86-mswin32-60
> platform
>
> RubyInstaller (from rubyintaller.org) install gems with x86-mingw32.
>

Just to make it more clear:

gem install mysql will install the correct binary version, and if none
is found, will install the 'ruby' version which will trigger the
compile process.

--
Luis Lavena