From: Lyle Johnson <lyle@...>
Date: 2003-12-30T23:41:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Having trouble with ruby-mysql

Jaap wrote:

> Martin Larsson wrote:
> 
>> Hi list
>>
>> I'm running ruby-1.8.1-i386-mswin32 on winxp.
>> Works good, but I would like mysql support to work too...
>> I am trying with mysql-ruby-2.4.2-1-winpkg but it says it need 
>> mswin32-ruby16.dll and i cant find it anywhere
>> Anyone know where i can get it?
> 
> In my C:\Ruby\bin there is a file called msvcrt-ruby18.dll
> I would assume that's the file you'd need. It'll have a different name 
> on your system if you use Ruby 1.6.

No, those DLLs have different names because they're different files ;)

It sounds like the precompiled version of ruby-mysql that Martin has was 
compiled against Ruby 1.6, and he will need to find someone who has 
compiled it against Ruby 1.8.1 instead.