1. Download the file http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/R/RK/RKOBES/mysql_config_win32.pl
2. Make sure mysql.exe is in your path. Run it: perl mysql_config_win32.pl
3. It will generate a mysql_config.bat and mysql_config.pl file, and install them to your mysql/bin directory, hopefully. On mine, I had to edit the .bat slightly to get it to work with Strawberry - remove the "%~dp0" prefix from lines 4 and 7
4. Run "cpan" from the Command Prompt.
5. run the command "look DBD::mysql"
6. edit the Makefile.PL with the edits shown at http://strawberry.pastebin.com/f17b6dba9
7. disable the server tests (if you want)
8. perl Makefile.PL
9. add path_to_mysql\lib\opt\libmysql.lib to the list of EXTRALIBS and LDLOADLIBS in Makefile Also, you need to make sure (it should already be) libmysql.dll is in your %PATH%. Note: since it was x64 windows mysql server bin\ that was in my %PATH%, I had to refer to the 32-bit libmysql.lib (stored in a different place), and also I had to put the 32-bit libmysql.dll in blib\arch\auto\DBD\mysql so that the tests run and it installed it correctly. That way (for me) it uses the 32-bit client .dll but operates against my 64-bit mysql server (which happens to be on localhost).
10. dmake
11. dmake test
12. dmake install

Thanks for the great tips! Turns out I didn't need to change the .bat file to remove %~dp0, but perhaps that is a Win32 vs Win64 issue. Again, massive thankyou.

I badly need this patch and tried to run: mysql_config_win32.pl ...it has failed every time stating: 'C:\PROGRA~1\MySQL\MySQL' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. Problem running C:\PROGRA~1\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.0\bin \mysqladmin.exe - aborting ... ...I went into the script and found that the variable: $mysqladmin was correctly getting the path in $mysqladmin @line 55, or thereabouts, of the script, however the next line: my $v = qx($mysqladmin version); results in no value in $v which then exits on the following "unless ($v) { etc, etc.... I attempted to run "mysqladmin version" at the command prompt which resulted in an error: "mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed error: 'Access denied for user 'ODBC'@'localhost' (using password: NO)' ...assuming this might be why $v gets no value, I spent hours trying to figure this out and did many things to my MySQL. I can get it to work issuing this command: mysqladmin -u root -p1588 version (1588 is just a dummy password value I put in...) ...first, I may be barking up the wrong tree here! ...second, if I am not, how do I feed the correct string to this portion of the script? Any help would be very much appreciated, it took me a long time to find this thread and answers to installing DBI and DBD:mysql on my Windows Vista machine with Perl 5.10 and the latest MySQL. I badly need wisdom and thank anyone who thinks they can explain this in advance! Best Pyrrhic

'C:\PROGRA~1\MySQL\MySQL' is not recognized as an internal or external command

I would think that the main problem here is that mysqladmin.exe is in a folder whose name contains white space (ie the "MySQL Server 5.0" part of the path).

The best solution is to not put *anything* in such places - then you won't have to deal with the various workarounds. One such workaround in this instance (untested) is to replace $v = qx($mysqladmin version); with $v = qx("$mysqladmin" version);
I think that will work - otherwise you could try  $v = qx("\"$mysqladmin\"" version);


Cheers,
Rob

All the more reason to use the right tool -- Linux.

"Friends don't let friends use Windows."

Sometimes using linux isn't a option...