mysql.so: Permission denied (Ruby under Cygwin)

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Mon Jun 18 13:25:00 GMT 2007


On Jun 18 06:19, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Ronald Fischer wrote:
> 
> > There is none. I was told by Ruby-Talk people that I should use the
> > Windows
> > gem - it would work fine.
> 
> Ugh.

Indeed, ugh.  Who told you that, some random guy on ruby-talk or
somebody who actually knows what (s)he's talking about?

> You're mixing native win32 stuff with Cygwin stuff.  You're trying to
> load the module into a running copy of a Cygwin ruby but this module
> imports symbols from the other copy of ruby in in C:\ruby185\.  This
> means it probably expects data structures of the native build, and most
> likely will crash or act with very unpredictable behavior when used
> elsewhere.  In general this kind of cross-polination is never a good
> idea.
> 
> The *right* way to do it is to either stick to the win32 build (only) or
> to build all the components that you want to use as Cygwin modules.

Exactly.


Corinna

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