Hi Gary, Thanks for the advise.
I'd put it 1st in the windows/system32 folder then the ruby1.87/bin folder. now what the difference between the one i got 212kb and you're of 1.4?meg this more out of interest than anything. dave. On 11 December 2010 21:14, Gary Doades <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/12/2010 6:19 AM, dave lilley wrote: > > > > On 11 December 2010 17:17, Jeremy Evans <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On Dec 10, 7:00 pm, dave <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I've used the snippet of code below on my devlopement box fine (using >> > linux) and on another Linux box. >> > >> This should make it obvious what the problem is. Install the mysql >> gem and the problem should go away. >> >> Well I got a LIBMYSQL.dll error so found it on the net and now I get a > error procedure point mysql_row_tell could not be located in the DDL > libmysql. > > I don't want to have mysql server installed as I want to create an exe or > single file (via exerb) that i can take and put onto other windows PC's and > have the program "just work". > > I will be accessing a remote MYSQL server via the net or local network just > not local to the PC. > > I rechecked my Linux dev PC and see I've not got mysql gem loaded so this > was something i didn't think of. > > have you other thoughts ? > > > You need to install the mysql gem (2.8.1 is the latest I think) > > gem install mysql > > and then go here: > > > http://instantrails.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/InstantRails-win/InstantRails/mysql/bin/libmySQL.dll > > to get a copy if libmysql.dll and put it in your ruby/lib folder > (C:/Ruby187/lib/ in your setup it seems) > > The problem is that the mysql gem under windows only seems to work > properly with an older libmysql.dll from mysql 5.0 as I suspect that is what > the latest version of the mysql gem was compiled against. > > When you install the mysql gem under linux, it get compiled against whwever > version of mysql client you have at the time and so always works. > > Cheers, > Gary. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sequel-talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<sequel-talk%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sequel-talk?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sequel-talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sequel-talk?hl=en.
