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Comment on Installing MySQL on Windows 7 x64 and using Ruby with it by Luis

Luis — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:29:02 +0000

Those are RDoc errors, not the gem installation. Indeed could be confusing but can be safely ignored.

Comment on Installing MySQL on Windows 7 x64 and using Ruby with it by Jim

Jim — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:27:23 +0000

1.8.7 and DevKit are now installed.

Had to point environment path to the 187 folder (and reboot) to get things switched over.

MySQL gem then installed successfully! … however, following that message was:

Installing ri documentation for mysql1-2.8.1…
No definition for next_result
No definition for field_name
No definition for field_def
No definition for field_type
… about 30 similar messages follow

Thanks again for helping…

Comment on Installing MySQL on Windows 7 x64 and using Ruby with it by Luis

Luis — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:07:56 +0000

Seems you really didn’t read the article word by word

What I’m going to describe next is how I installed and configured my environment and how I made it work properly. YMMV if you decided to use different versions of the components I used for this.

[later on]

This time I’m going to use Ruby 1.9.2, properly installed and configured with the complementary Development Kit (DevKit) which is provided at RubyInstaller website (In case you haven’t installed yet, don’t forget to follow the installation instructions in the wiki)

While RubyInstaller provides an installer for 1.8.6, 1.8.6 is EOL (End of Life) — there will be no new version.

I recommend you install at least 1.8.7, which is provided in the RubyInstaller website.

Also, you haven’t provided answers to the version information of Ruby you have installed, so I guess it’s platform is not i386-mingw32 in which case RubyInstaller DevKit (GCC) will not work with it.

Sane advice: use RubyInstaller 1.8.7 + DevKit, it installs in a separate folder and it doesn’t mess with your environment.

Comment on Installing MySQL on Windows 7 x64 and using Ruby with it by Jim

Jim — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:56:36 +0000

Thanks for the quick reply Luis.
The 3 folders you mention are there.
Version is 1.8.6
Are RubyInstaller and DevKit required? If so, are they compatible with 1.8.6?

Comment on Installing MySQL on Windows 7 x64 and using Ruby with it by Luis

Luis — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:16:21 +0000

What is inside C:/mysql-connector-c-noinstall-6.0.2-win32 folder?

It contains a bin, lib and include folders?

Did you install RubyInstaller and the DevKit?

What version of Ruby are you using? (ruby -v from command line)

Can you join RubyInstaller group with the answer to those questions?

http://groups.google.com/group/rubyinstaller/

Comment on Installing MySQL on Windows 7 x64 and using Ruby with it by Jim

Jim — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:18:52 +0000

I’ve been at this all day and cannot get the mysql gem installed. Regardless of the various –with-mysql-xxxxx parameters I try, the result is always:

“checking for main() in -llibmysql… no” *** extconf.rb failed ***

This is a win7 machine, I’ve downloaded mysql-connector-c-noinstall-6.0.2-win32 to my root drive. Syntax being used is: “gem install mysql –platform=ruby — –with-mysql-dir=C:/mysql-connector-c-noinstall-6.0.2-win32″.

Any ideas appreciated!

Comment on Installing MySQL on Windows 7 x64 and using Ruby with it by Luis

Luis — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:30:45 +0000

You say you did exactly but got Joe’s error? are you sure you used the zip file and extracted it to a path without spaces? Are you usre you used the 32bits version of Connector/C instead of the 64bits? Did you use — –with-mysql-dir or did you provide the options separated?

Have you checked that the error you’re getting is not covered in the Troubleshooting page?

https://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/wiki/Troubleshooting

Is too vague to be able to provide help to those requests. Feel free to join RubyInstaller or RailsInstaller groups:

https://groups.google.com/group/rubyinstaller
https://groups.google.com/group/railsinstaller

Comment on Installing MySQL on Windows 7 x64 and using Ruby with it by ofca

ofca — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:25:21 +0000

i did EVERYTHING that you did and still get the error(similar to joe up there, but I extracted correctly):
ERROR: Error installing mysql:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
please help i searched everywhere… thanks… :/

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Comment on Installing MySQL on Windows 7 x64 and using Ruby with it by Peter

Peter — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:23:37 +0000

Wow, that is one awesome guide. My first time on Rails and linked it to MySQL x64 like a pro. Thanks