Playing around with the partitions on my mac yesterday, i accidently deleted the efi partition (dumb of me, i know), but I figured it was about time for a reload, so i just sucked it up and wiped the mac clean. 

Going through and installing all the stuff i needed for development, i ran into a problem installing the native mysql bindings for ruby.

 

[host-192-168-254-149:~] pjdavis% sudo gem install mysql

Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org/

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

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… no

checking for main() in -lsocket… no

checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient… no

checking for main() in -lnsl… no

checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient… no

*** extconf.rb failed ***

Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of

necessary libraries and/or headers.  Check the mkmf.log file for more

details.  You may need configuration options.

Provided configuration options:

        –with-opt-dir

        –without-opt-dir

        –with-opt-include

        –without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include

        –with-opt-lib

        –without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib

        –with-make-prog

        –without-make-prog

        –srcdir=.

        –curdir

        –ruby=/opt/local/bin/ruby

        –with-mysql-config

        –without-mysql-config

        –with-mysql-dir

        –without-mysql-dir

        –with-mysql-include

        –without-mysql-include=${mysql-dir}/include

        –with-mysql-lib

        –without-mysql-lib=${mysql-dir}/lib

        –with-mysqlclientlib

        –without-mysqlclientlib

        –with-mlib

        –without-mlib

        –with-mysqlclientlib

        –without-mysqlclientlib

        –with-zlib

        –without-zlib

        –with-mysqlclientlib

        –without-mysqlclientlib

        –with-socketlib

        –without-socketlib

        –with-mysqlclientlib

        –without-mysqlclientlib

        –with-nsllib

        –without-nsllib

        –with-mysqlclientlib

        –without-mysqlclientlib

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

 

sudo gem install mysql

sudo gem install mysql -- \
--with-mysql-include=/usr/local/mysql/include/ \
--with-mysql-lib=/usr/local/mysql/lib/ \
--with-mysql-config=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config

Tags: bindings, gem, installation, mysql, rails, ruby