Comments on: MySQL ruby gem install problem on Mac OS X Leopard

By: Craig Ulliott

Craig Ulliott — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 15:22:05 +0000

If you’re using RVM you will need to specify the location of the ruby headers

env ARCHFLAGS=”-arch x86_64″ gem install mysql — –with-mysql-config=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config –with-ruby-include=/Users/craig/.rvm/src/ruby-1.9.2-p180/

By: Squeeze Page Creator

Squeeze Page Creator — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 06:57:24 +0000

Wow! You’ve just fixed my problem! I having the same issue with my MySQL ruby gem and I applied your fix. This works for me perfectly. Thanks!

By: Harry

Harry — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 07:53:12 +0000

Great post!! Thanks for sharing an informative and interesting article. Keep it up!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 02:25:09 +0000

This is awesome!! Thank you so much for posting this!!

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By: Shaun

Shaun — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:09:58 +0000

Thanks a lot for this, it helped me solve the the last in a long chain of problems I’ve been encountering.

By: Greg H

Greg H — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:24:19 +0000

Hi - I don’t suppose anyone has a suggestion for this error I’m getting…still can’t seem to get the mysql gem installed

Macintosh-2:myequity greg$ sudo env ARCHFLAGS=”-arch i386″ gem install mysql — –with-mysql-dir=/usr/local/mysql –with-mysql-lib=/usr/local/mysql/lib –with-mysql-include=/usr/local/mysql/include -V

WARNING: RubyGems 1.2+ index not found for:

RubyGems will revert to legacy indexes degrading performance.
Updating metadata for 69 gems from http://gems.rubyforge.org/
……………………………………………………………
complete
Building native extensions. This could take a while…
ERROR: Error installing mysql:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

/opt/local/bin/ruby extconf.rb install mysql — –with-mysql-dir=/usr/local/mysql –with-mysql-lib=/usr/local/mysql/lib –with-mysql-include=/usr/local/mysql/include -V
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… yes
checking for mysql_ssl_set()… yes
checking for mysql.h… yes
creating Makefile

make
/usr/bin/gcc-4.0 -I. -I. -I/opt/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-darwin9.3.0 -I. -DHAVE_MYSQL_SSL_SET -DHAVE_MYSQL_H -I/usr/local/mysql/include -I/usr/local/mysql/include -I/opt/local/include -fno-common -O2 -fno-common -pipe -fno-common -c mysql.c
mysql.c: In function ‘Init_mysql’:
mysql.c:2015: error: ‘ulong’ undeclared (first use in this function)
mysql.c:2015: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
mysql.c:2015: error: for each function it appears in.)
mysql.c:2015: error: syntax error before numeric constant
mysql.c:2018: error: syntax error before numeric constant
make: *** [mysql.o] Error 1

Gem files will remain installed in /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.7 for inspection.
Results logged to /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.7/gem_make.out
Macintosh-2:myequity greg$

By: nuc

nuc — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 11:11:51 +0000

You’re absolutely amazing!!!!!!!!!

Thank you