MySQL installation in cygwin

[Gerrit P. Haase]

Gowri schrieb:

> I tried to install DBD for mysql in cygwin, the
> linking fails because I think it tries to link a
> Windows library from mysql and fails.

Create an importlibrary as I described and link against it.

>   Also is there Perl Package Manager in cygwin?

/bin/cpan (the CPAN module) does this job very well.

>   So, I thought if mysql is compiled in cygwin the
> problem will be solved.

Is the server running?  Can you provide some information
about MySQL on Cygwin?

>    I tried installing ActiveState perl and then
> successfully installed DBI and DBD for mysql. But when
> I run ActiveState perl in cygwin with full path to
> files (like perl /tmp/test.pl) it fails. But (cd /tmp;
> perl test.pl) works fine. Since we want to run perl
> scripts by full path the perl scripts fail with
> ActiveState perl. Also is there any PPM (perl package
> manager for cygwin)?

Native Windows applications doesn't know about Cygwin's POSIX paths.
This is not easy, IIRC there was a wrapper to use AS Perl from Cygwin,
but since Perl is available for Cygwin I don't use AS Perl anymore...

PPM, no, use CPAN.


Gerrit
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