Re: mysql.so: Permission denied (Ruby under Cygwin)

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Jun 18 14:15, Ronald Fischer wrote:
> [this message is crossposted to the Cygwin- and RubyTalk mailing lists].
> 
> Running Ruby 1.8.6 under Cygwin, i.e.
> 
> 
>  $ /usr/bin/ruby --version
>  ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13 patchlevel 0) [i386-cygwin]
> 
> the statement
> 
>   require 'mysql'
> 
> raises the following error message:
> 
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.7.3-mswin32/ext/mysql.so: Permission
> denied - /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.7.3-mswin32/ext/mysql.so
> (LoadError)
>         from
> /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:32:in `require'
> 
> The access rights to mysql.so are as follows:
> 
> 
> -rw-r--r-- 1 rfischer mkgroup-l-d 81984 May 21 18:08
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.7.3-mswin32/ext/mysql.so
> 
> 
> Using the mysql module with Ruby on Windows outside Cygwin works well.
> What could be the reason for this problem?

The first problem are the access rights.  Shared libs must have the
execute bits set.  chmod +x mysql.so will help.

The second problem is that this shared lib has been created for the
native win32 version of ruby, not for the Cygwin version.  It *might*
work together, but it's neither guaranteed, nor supported.

The third problem is that right now there's no Cygwin ruby-gems package
in the cygwin net distribution.  Volunteers welcome.


Corinna

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