X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <46767F03.48C33276@dessent.net> Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 05:48:03 -0700 From: Brian Dessent X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: mysql.so: Permission denied (Ruby under Cygwin) References: <387E9FC1619C0849BA8934938037E54F0884D2@sv-muc-004.venyon-mail.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Ronald Fischer wrote: > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.7.3-mswin32/ext/mysql.so: Permission > denied - /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.7.3-mswin32/ext/mysql.so > (LoadError) > from > /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:32:in `require' Do you have libmysqlclient installed? Have you checked the library dependencies of mysql.so? If you don't have the libraries that this DLL requires it will fail to load. Also, it's very suspicious that you'd be using what looks like a native-compiled module (i.e. MSVCRT) in a Cygwin binary. That's usually a recipe for failure. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/