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Installing MySQL Ruby gem on Leopard

Noted for myself and others for future reference.

Posted on 2008-11-14 15:52 by Jørn Støylen [permalink]

Today I upgraded to Leopard, and wanted to install the MySQL Ruby gem, like so:

sudo gem install mysql

I got errors, though:

ERROR:  Error installing mysql:
        ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby extconf.rb install mysql -- --with-mysql-dir=/usr/local/mysql/bin/
checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no
checking for main() in -lm... yes
checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no
checking for main() in -lz... yes
checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no
checking for main() in -lsocket... no
checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no
checking for main() in -lnsl... no
checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no
*** extconf.rb failed ***

Then I found this advice:

Try this: $ sudo gem install mysql -- --with-mysql-config

And yay, that worked!

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