On Jun 18 14:15, Ronald Fischer wrote: > [this message is crossposted to the Cygwin- and RubyTalk mailing lists]. > > Running Ruby 1.8.6 under Cygwin, i.e. > > > $ /usr/bin/ruby --version > ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13 patchlevel 0) [i386-cygwin] > > the statement > > require 'mysql' > > raises the following error message: > > /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' > > The access rights to mysql.so are as follows: > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 rfischer mkgroup-l-d 81984 May 21 18:08 > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.7.3-mswin32/ext/mysql.so > > > Using the mysql module with Ruby on Windows outside Cygwin works well. > What could be the reason for this problem?
The first problem are the access rights. Shared libs must have the execute bits set. chmod +x mysql.so will help. The second problem is that this shared lib has been created for the native win32 version of ruby, not for the Cygwin version. It *might* work together, but it's neither guaranteed, nor supported. The third problem is that right now there's no Cygwin ruby-gems package in the cygwin net distribution. Volunteers welcome. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/
