Good day to you all.

I am trying to get the DBI drivers working for MySql under RedHat 7.

When I run make for Msql-Mysql-modules-1.2216 I get the following error:

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find –lz.

What does this mean? How can I fix it?

When I try to run a perl script that connects to MySql under Apache I get the following error:

install_driver(mysql) failed: Can’t load ‘/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.so’ for module DBD::mysql: undefined symbol: uncompress at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux/DynaLoader.pm line 206.

What does this mean? How can I fix it?

Have you got the gcc update? The RH7.0 install disc one didn't work.
Jim

It looks like the linker is looking for libz.a which is either not in your -L path, or more likely it is not built on your machine. When you pass libaries to the linker it is done with -l<libname> where libname is the name of the library without the lib and the .a. So libz.a is the -lz library.

If you do not have zlib, download it from this site.
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/
Then build and install it. It should create a file called libz.a in the /usr/local/lib directory. (that is where it installs by default).

If you do have libz.a already, then check to see if the path to the file is include in a -L parameter to the linker.

Hope this helps

Gary

Nice one.

I have downloaded the zlib and install it. Everything seems to be working now.

Thank you.