Ruby with MySQL on Windows

[smelban]

I'm running WAMP (

http://www.wampserver.com)

and I got Ruby to run by adding .rb as a perl extension and including the ruby path in the top of my script.

I have been unable to get the mysql function to work. Has anyone had any luck running the "gem install mysql" command? I get the following error. The doc in the install path says "% env LD_RUN_PATH=libmysqlclient.so directory make" but I don't really get it.

ruby extconf.rb install mysql
checking for mysql_query() in mysqlclient.lib... no
checking for main() in m.lib... yes
checking for mysql_query() in mysqlclient.lib... no
checking for main() in z.lib... no
checking for mysql_query() in mysqlclient.lib... no
checking for main() in socket.lib... no
checking for mysql_query() in mysqlclient.lib... no
checking for main() in nsl.lib... no
checking for mysql_query() in mysqlclient.lib... no

 

[carpeliam]

If you installed using the "one-click ruby installer", mysql support comes with. how/when did you install?

One-Click Ruby Installer:

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

"Rolling with Rails" article that talks you through setup (but doesn't use wamp) for mysql/ruby:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/20/rails.html

Liam Morley
Software Engineer
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