From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2010-08-03T12:00:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Installing mysql gem on Win7 x64 for MySQL 5.1.x

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.

> 2. Getting the gem to install is only half the battle. You still need to
> get a copy of the DLL that matches the gem. These directions allow you
> to run a later version of MySQL than the one used to build the gem.
>

I don't understand the battle about the gem installation, you don't
need to provide any options to it, it just install the binary.

Of course you still depend on a working MySQL installation, and the
libmysql.dll available in the system and accessible to Ruby.

> 3. Despite spending some serious time looking into this problem, I was
> unable to find all of this information organized in one location. I felt
> that this forum was a logical place to look for this information.
>

I think a wiki page, like the one I have mentioned fits better. Also,
there are 2 or 3 tutorials in that page that provide instructions on
how to install it and even more, how to compile the gem to a different
version of the gem.

Things in the forum (actually a mailing list) get lost with time and
people will still ask again. Is more easy point to a always persistent
link (wiki).

> I'm just trying to ease the way of some other poor soul running into
> this problem.
>

Understood, but still, the instructions are not accurate and your
indications add more noise to the problem.

Sometimes I see people suffering that Ruby is complicated on Windows
and most of the time is associated with the instructions they are
following.

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Luis Lavena