Yesterday evening, a friend of mine had some issues with installing DBD::mysql, and asked if I had encountered the same issue. The problem, as the output from "make test" showed, was that certain symbols was missing:# Tried to use 'DBD::mysql'.# Error: Can't load '/Users/westerlund/src/perl/DBD-mysql-4.008/blib/arch/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.bundle' for module DBD::mysql: dlopen(/Users/westerlund/src/perl/DBD-mysql-4.008/blib/arch/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.bundle, 2): Symbol not found: _is_prefixFair enough, this is related to a 64-bit issue with MySQL---at least with my Perl version, which is now: Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 10 subversion 0) configuration: Platform: osname=darwin, osvers=9.5.0, archname=darwin-thread-multi-64int-2levelIf you try to link to a x86_64 version of MySQL, then you get the above mentioned error. So, I downloaded an x86 version of MySQL and tried again. The output from  []

I just filed a very annoying bug when trying to compile with plugin engines using the 5.1.xx source tarball.DescriptionI am trying to test SphinxSE as a plugin instead of getting it statically linked and came across an annoying bug. When using the configure "--with-plugins" option only once, the engine is statically linked. When using it twice, the first engine is created as a plugin, and the 2nd one is linked statically. Here are a couple of examples:

Building MySQL client applications

Developing MySQL on Solaris requires you to install a suitable compiler and other tools, but you may be surprised to know that most of the material is there already, or easy to install if it's not. But even more so, there is a huge wealth of information that you can get about your application while it's running, both with and without using more traditional debugging methods. We'll cover setting up a suitable environment, where to find the things you need, and and how to make use of the process monitoring tools and debugging environment to get the best out of development on Solaris generally, and MySQL specifically.

Using, installing and working with MySQL on OpenSolaris. - Note that the video must be downloaded to be able to view it!

Developing MySQL on Solaris requires you to install a suitable compiler and other tools, but you may be surprised to know that most of the material is there already, or easy to install if it's not. But even more so, there is a huge wealth of information that you can get about your application while it's running, both with and without using more traditional debugging methods. We'll cover setting up a suitable environment, where to find the things you need, and and how to make use of the process monitoring tools and debugging environment to get the best out of development on Solaris generally, and MySQL specifically.

Using, installing and working with MySQL on OpenSolaris. - Note that the video must be downloaded to be able to view it!