cflags

This is a list of flags that you want to give to the C compiler. The most important flag is the location of the MySQL header files. For example, on Red Hat Linux the header files are in /usr/include/mysql and you might try

-I/usr/include/mysql

NB This may help with a manual install, there is also mention of different required packages for different linux distro's which may assist?

Ive tried


perl Makefile>PL --cflags=-I/usr/local/mysql
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I get this error:


Failed to determine directory of libmysqlclient.a|libmysqlclient.so.
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My command of unix is still quite medium. Can you see what is wrong in my command.
Costas

You're making progress... now you just need to tell it where to find your mysql libraries by adding to your perl Makefile.pm commandL

--cflags=-I/usr/local/mysql -libs=-L/path/to/mysql/libs
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You can find most of this information in the INSTALL.html file that's in the tio level of your DBD-mysql build directory -- if you continue to have difficulty, look for the answer there before posting here -- might save you a lot of time.

Gack. I totally missed this. (Sorry... it's late... or early rather...)


--cflags=-I/usr/local/mysql -libs=-L/path/to/mysql/libs

Should be

--cflags=-I/usr/local/mysql/include -libs=-L/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql

That's why your compiler is unable to find mysql.h and errmsg.h. It doesn't have the right include directory set. (Assuming your mysql install directory is /usr/local/mysql/)

That seems fine as long as mysql.h is in that directory? At a guess it's found your header files but cant get to the client libraries.

I'm only getting this from the Doc's you know :) !, though I've had problems with DBD::Oracle in the past....

In addition to --cflags use the --libs directive as well to specify where the .so or .a files are and see if that gets you over both hurdles.

In file included from dbdimp.c:29:
dbdimp.h:31: mysql.h: No such file or directory
dbdimp.h:32: errmsg.h: No such file or director
make: *** [dbdimp.o] Error 1
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Sure looks to me like you're still missing the mysql include files. /usr/local/mysql/include should contain the following files

config-win.h  heap.h       my_dir.h         my_tree.h        mysys_err.h        t_ctype.h
config.h      m_ctype.h    my_global.h      myisam.h         nisam.h            thr_alarm.h
dbug.h        m_string.h   my_list.h        myisammrg.h      queues.h           thr_lock.h
errmsg.h      merge.h      my_net.h         myisampack.h     raid.h             violite.h
ft_global.h   my_alarm.h   my_no_pthread.h  mysql.h          sslopt-case.h
getopt.h      my_base.h    my_nosys.h       mysql_com.h      sslopt-longopts.h
global.h      my_bitmap.h  my_pthread.h     mysql_version.h  sslopt-usage.h
hash.h        my_config.h  my_sys.h         mysqld_error.h   sslopt-vars.h

If it does, then please post the lines before the error (should be something like gcc dbdimp.c -I./ BLAH BLAH) so we can see the parameters passed to the compiler. If it doesn't, than you need to install the include files with MySQL. (Although I'm pretty sure they're installed by default if you compiled it from source.)