in reply to Problem with setting locations in Makefile.PL

Right on ;)

The path to mysql_config must be in your PATH variable.

This is what I use 

perl Makefile.PL --libs="-LC:\mysql\lib\opt -lmysqlclient"

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C:\mysql\lib\opt contains the file mysqlclient.lib, which is what you're trying to link to (i doubt the that's located in a /bin or /include directory).

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