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Re: Back to mysql
- From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz at users dot sourceforge dot net>
- To: cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 20:47:01 -0600
- Subject: Re: Back to mysql
- References: <ie6bj8$kua$1@dough.gmane.org>
On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 18:52 -0500, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> I'm trying to port a Perl script of mine that uses DBI and DBD::mysql
> to update a database running on another, Linux, server. I have been able
> to install DBI (cpan DBI) and get it to compile, but I cannot get
> DBD::mysql to install. When I try I get
>
> Can't exec "mysql_config": No such file or directory at Makefile.PL line
> 464.
> Can't find mysql_config. Use --mysql_config option to specify where
> mysql_config is located
>
> My understanding is that this mysql_config is only present when you
> install mysql_client (well on a Linux system it's called mysql_client)
> but IIRC there is no mysql_client for Cygwin - or is there?
>
> Any workarounds? Is there a way I can install the Windows version of
> mysql_client and have Cygwin's Perl interact with it?
mysql_config is YA foo-config script as included in some -devel
packages. You can get mysql, libmysql*, perl-DBI, and perl-DBD-mysql
from Ports.
Yaakov
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