Re^2: DBD::mysql

I've installed perl 5.8.5, and am now getting a different problem with installing DBD::mysql. CPAN puts up a list of a couple thousand lines of errors which largely read

dbdimp.c:####: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
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Also there are numerous errors like

dbdimp.c: In function 'mysql_db_reconnect':
dbdimp.c.2273: 'MYSQL undeclared (first use in this function)
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Is the installation not finding MySQL? It's up and running when I try to install with CPAN.

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Re^3: DBD::mysql by jdtoronto (Prior) on Nov 03, 2004 at 14:35 UTC
It seems you STILL haven't downloaded the client libraries for MySQL. DBD-MySQL requires certain library or header files from MySQL in order to be able to compile. Go to the MySQL site and download the appropriate file of 'libraries and headers' (usually around 2.6MB) for your version of MySQl. THEN try to compile DBD-mysql. It will probably work - it usually does. jdtoronto	[reply]