Comments on: FIX: checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient… no

By: Erwin Quita

Erwin Quita — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:12:10 +0000

Thanks for this… saved me a lot of time figuring it to compile.

By: SolidMax

SolidMax — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:23:17 +0000

This old post saved my life, thanks a lot

By: lucas luky

lucas luky — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:54:35 +0000

THANK YOU!

Here’s another way to solve this problem (if you already have MySQL installed somewhere):
http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?116,157273,175993#msg-175993

For me I needed to do:
$ sudo gem install mysql — –with-mysql-lib=/opt/lampp/lib/mysql
Select which gem to install for your platform (i486-linux)
1. mysql 2.7.3 (mswin32)
2. mysql 2.7.1 (mswin32)
3. mysql 2.7 (ruby)
4. mysql 2.6 (ruby)
5. Skip this gem
6. Cancel installation
> 3
Building native extensions. This could take a while…
Successfully installed mysql-2.7

By: karatedog

karatedog — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:57:39 +0000

Yiihaa! Tried 3 different posts on this problem, they all contained bits of information, but this one saved the day.

By: smr

smr — Wed, 06 May 2009 08:06:41 +0000

This worked for me -
gem install mysql — –with-mysql-config=/usr/lib/mysql/mysql_config

By: zakwanhaj

zakwanhaj — Sun, 17 May 2009 08:22:02 +0000

Big thanks for you