[Refdb-users] Installed on MacOS X? (and mysqlclient)

[Markus H. <ma...@mh...>]

Hi,

I've been in contact with a few people running RefDB/MySQL on MacOS X,
so in general it should be doable. It is quite possible that binary
MySQL packages lack the development libraries and headers. Could you
please check whether there is a separate package for these files,
something like mysql-devel? Debian Linux uses separate devel packages
for nearly any package that uses nonstandard libraries.

If there is no such package, you should be able to build the library
yourself. You need the MySQL sources (preferably from the stable 3.23
branch), available at www.mysql.org. ./configure -h will tell you
about a configure option to build only the clients (something like
--no-server, but I'm not sure) which will also create the
libmysqlclient library and headers.

regards,
Markus

Alexandre Enkerli writes:
 > Did anyone succeed building, installing, and using RefDB on MacOS X?
 > So far, after several attempts, I've succeeded at building some version 
 > of refdb (using Marc Liyanage's MySQL and several fink packages, 
 > including unsupported ones) but I'm missing mysqlclient library for 
 > libdbi's mysql plugin. It seems that Liyanage's MySQL may lack the 
 > mysqlclient library.
 > Installing RefDB on OSX has already been very time-consuming and it 
 > seems that some users have already succeeded. If any of these users 
 > would be so kind as to post a detailed explanation of what they have 
 > done, it would be greatly appreciated.
 > 
 > Thanks!
 > 
 > Alex
 > 

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