thanks anonymous.... Problem solved...in a nutshell i installed DBD-mysql in /Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/bin/perl, and not /usr/bin/perl.

long answer:
I basically stayed away from the many examples on the web that used /usr/bin/perl, and /usr/local/mysql....
so it works, now, but it is a cop-out, since the other methods should work as well... anyways this is easier to maintain since i am using an xampp distribution...we'll see about that.
here is what i did.
- Fresh install of xampp-0.74
- Download and tar xvf the developer package of xampp to /mytmp
    - note: i needed the include dir in the developer package for cpan to install DBD-mysql, namely the mysql include files
- Copied the /mytmp/xampp/xamppfiles/include to /Applications/xampp/xamppfiles
- Installed DBI and DBD:mysql using CPAN and the perl in xampp. It is important to use XAMPP perl, and /usr/bin.
    - sudo /Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/bin/perl -MCPAN -e 'install DBI'
    - sudo /Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/bin/perl -MCPAN -e 'install DBD::mysql'
- in my scripts, i used #!/Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/bin/perl instead #!/usr/bin/perl

thanks for your input
regards,

In reply to Re^4: DBD-mysql: dyld error by fawzi
in thread DBD-mysql: dyld error by fawzi

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