OS X MySQL Gem Compilation Error
Darwinports does some weird shtuff. I think its highly convenient, but I don’t have time to debug the myriad of issues that crop up from multiple ruby and mysql installations. So, I wiped my Darwinports /opt folder, and started anew, with native versions of everything.
Since mysql’s header libs don’t include the proper type definitions to build the mysql gem, just add it to the mysql header, and the gem will compile just fine.
In /usr/local/mysql/include/mysql.h
Put this near the top, preferably after the redundancy-check in the preprocessor directives.
#define ulong unsigned long |
Then install the gem with the dependencies like so..
gem install mysql -- --with-mysql-config=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config |
Happy Compiling!
* Update
The Cat is out of the bag (Leopard) and a new set of issues has cropped up. Check out this wiki for some very useful commands to install the mysql gem easily
