On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 18:52 -0500, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > I'm trying to port a Perl script of mine that uses DBI and DBD::mysql > to update a database running on another, Linux, server. I have been able > to install DBI (cpan DBI) and get it to compile, but I cannot get > DBD::mysql to install. When I try I get > > Can't exec "mysql_config": No such file or directory at Makefile.PL line > 464. > Can't find mysql_config. Use --mysql_config option to specify where > mysql_config is located > > My understanding is that this mysql_config is only present when you > install mysql_client (well on a Linux system it's called mysql_client) > but IIRC there is no mysql_client for Cygwin - or is there? > > Any workarounds? Is there a way I can install the Windows version of > mysql_client and have Cygwin's Perl interact with it?
mysql_config is YA foo-config script as included in some -devel packages. You can get mysql, libmysql*, perl-DBI, and perl-DBD-mysql from Ports. Yaakov -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple