I will use the following settings for compiling and testing: cflags (mysql_config) = -I/usr/local/include libs (mysql_config) = -L/usr/local/lib -lmysqlclient -lz -lcrypt -lns l -lm mysql_config (guessed ) = mysql_config nocatchstderr (default ) = 0 nofoundrows (default ) = 0 ssl (guessed ) = 0 testdb (default ) = test testhost (default ) = testpassword (default ) = testsocket (default ) = testuser (default ) = To change these settings, see 'perl Makefile.PL --help' and 'perldoc INSTALL'. Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lmysqlclient Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lnsl Using DBI 1.48 (for perl 5.008006 on cygwin-thread-multi-64int) installed in /us r/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8/cygwin/auto/DBI/ Writing Makefile for DBD::mysql