Re: Installing DBD via CPAN

I found this in the install.html ::>

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?

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Re: Re: Installing DBD via CPAN by costas (Scribe) on Jul 17, 2001 at 14:21 UTC
Ive tried `perl Makefile>PL --cflags=-I/usr/local/mysql` [download] I get this error: `Failed to determine directory of libmysqlclient.a\|libmysqlclient.so.` [download] My command of unix is still quite medium. Can you see what is wrong in my command. Costas	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: Re: Installing DBD via CPAN by Cubes (Pilgrim) on Jul 17, 2001 at 14:34 UTC
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` [download] 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.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Installing DBD via CPAN by dondelelcaro (Monk) on Jul 17, 2001 at 16:54 UTC
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/)	[reply]
Re: (2) Installing DBD via CPAN by agoth (Chaplain) on Jul 17, 2001 at 14:39 UTC
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.	[reply]