I'm trying to configure a PHP installation (5.4.3) with MYSQL (5.0.91) for use with a PHP web application that relies on the MDB2 mysql module. When I install using PEAR, pear tells me that PHP does not have the required mysql extension.
Some googling around lead me to check the PHP.ini file, in which I found that extension=php_mysql.dll was commented out. I turned this on and restarted php. PHP complains that it can't find php_mysql.dll.
I realized that this might have been because I didn't install php with the --with-sql flag turned on. Reconfiguring leaves me with the following error:
checking for MySQL support... yes
checking for specified location of the MySQL UNIX socket... /project/mullenl
checking for mysql_close in -lmysqlclient... no
checking for mysql_errno in -lmysqlclient... no
configure: error: Try adding --with-zlib-dir=<DIR>. Please check config.log for more information.
A quick look at the configuration log shows the problem:
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lmysqlclient
When I check my lib directory in my mysql installation the following things are present:
libdbug.a
libmysql.imp
libmysqlclient.so*
libmysqlclient.so.15.0.0*
libmysqlclient_r.so*
libmysqlclient_r.so.15.0.0*
libmysys.a
libndbclient.la*
libndbclient.so.2*
libmygcc.a
libmysqlclient.a
libmysqlclient.so.15*
libmysqlclient_r.a
libmysqlclient_r.so.15*
libmystrings.a
libndbclient.a
libndbclient.so*
libndbclient.so.2.0.0*
I'm not too sure what to do next, but really need to configure PHP in this way to support the MDB2:MYSQL module. I suspect (?) that the reason I can't do this is because I don't have the development version of MYSQL installed, but I'm not sure this is the case. Any thoughts, ideas or advise would, as always, be greatly appreciated!
