DBD::mysql - A Perl5 Database Interface to the MySQL database

The driver installation is described in

INSTALL.html

In short: If you are using

Windows/ActivePerl

1.) If you need to use an HTTP Proxy, set the environment

variable http_proxy, for example like this:

2.) The actual installation is as simple as

          ppm install DBI
          ppm install DBD::mysql

        As of this writing, the above procedure won't work with
        ActivePerl 5.8.0, because so far a PPM for DBD::mysql is
        not available from the ActiveState server. I don't know
        why. However, Randy Kobes has kindly donated a PPM package
        to his own repository. You can use this as follows:

          ppm install http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/DBD-mysql.ppd

Windows/CygWin

Unfortunately it seems that the usual MySQL windows binaries cannot be combined with the CygWin libraries. At least I don't know how. In other words: You need to compile your own MySQL client binaries. In what follows I assume that you have downloaded and extracted the MySQL sources and the DBD::mysq sources to /usr/local/src. The following steps should do:

      cd /usr/local/src/mysql-4.0.9
       ./configure --without-server --prefix=/usr/local/mysql-4.0.9
      make
      make install
      cd /usr/local/src/DBD-mysql-2.1023
      perl Makefile.PL \
        --libs="-L/usr/local/mysql-4.0.9/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient -lz" \
        --cflags=-I/usr/local/mysql-4.0.9/include/mysql \
        --testhost=127.0.0.1
      make
      make test # Some minor error messages can be ignored here
      make install

Windows/CygWin (to build with embedded MySQL too)

First, build MySQL

      tar -xzf mysql-5.0.51b.tar.gz
      cd mysql-5.0.51b/
      ./configure --without-server --with-embedded-server
      make
      make install

Then build DBD::mysqlEmb

      cpan
      look DBD::mysql
      perl Makefile.PL --force-embedded
      make
      make install

Test with the following snippet
perl -e 'use DBI; $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysqlEmb:database=test;mysql_embedded=1;mysql_embedded_options=--help,--verbose","a","b");'

If your build is OK, this will print the mysql embedded help.

Linux/Red Hat (you may prefer gnorpm to use)

rpm -i mysql mysql-devel mysql-server rpm -i perl-DBI
rpm -i DBD-MySQL
rpm -i zlib-devel

Linux/SuSEs(you may prefer to use yast)

rpm -i mysql mysql-client mysql-devel mysql-shared rpm -i perl-DBI
rpm -i perl-Msql-Mysql-modules

Linux/Mandrake (you may prefer to use any Mandrake specific tool?)

rpm -i MySQL MySQL-client MySQL-devel MySQL-shared rpm -i perl-DBI
rpm -i perl-Mysql
rpm -i zlib-devel

Linux/Debian

Install the packages

      mysql-client mysql-server mysql-doc mysql-common
      libdbi-perl lidbd-mysql-perl

No idea how one does install these under Debian, but I am sure you know. :-)

For others, or in case of problems see INSTALL.html.

The drivers documentation can be obtained with

perldoc lib/DBD/mysql.pod

pod2html lib/DBD/mysql.pod >mysql.html

The driver is maintained by a mailing list:

perl@lists.mysql.com

You can also get help from the maintainer, Patrick Galbraith patg@patg.net