Anonymous Monk,
Maybe - came to me as I was waking up this morning. I remember a handful of minor annoyances when I tried following those instructions to include the header file. As it turned out, I had installed MySQL server (Windows version) and it comes with its own client libraries. The wrong client libraries (Windows) were in the path prior to the Cygwin.

Your comment concerning the mysqlclient.lib troubles me. It shouldn't be looking for a .lib extension. Are you sure you are pointing to the Cygwin built client library? Believe it or not, the Windows MySQL Server installation comes with shell scripts. If the perl Makefile.PL finds that script instead of the Cygwin client script, it will assume the wrong configuration information. It took me a while to find this.

Cheers - L~R

In reply to Re^3: DBD::mysql installation by Limbic~Region
in thread DBD::mysql installation by Anonymous Monk

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