Description:
The shared libraries (libmysqlclient.dylib, libmysqlclient.15.dylib, etc.) are missing from the installer package available for download, the only libraries installed are static libraries. This means anything depending on the shared libraries will break or refuse to install

How to repeat:
Install MySQL 5.0.x on Mac OS X.

Suggested fix:
Include shared libraries in the build.

Verified and the dynamic libraries are indeed not included.
It is static only afaik.

Compiling from source is ofcourse a way to get them for now.

Is this already solved ? I have some issues with static libraries on the Intel version.

Is there an alternative place to download just the dynamic client libraries?

Please, please, please provide a shared library in your next release....
At least let us know when you are thinking of providing this to the Mac community.

I second that! This is pretty crucial to my work.

Any chance this is going to get resolved soon? It's just completely ridiculous that hasn't been resolved yet. The issue also affects all releases of 5.1 for Mac OS X. The only solution appears to be to just download the source, build it with client only, then copy the libraries in.

I'm bumping up the severity in the hopes that someone will take notice and fix this.

I agree, this should be simple to resolve. Just change a parameter or two during the bild process. How hard can it be. Thanks for buming it up, I hope it will get noticed...

Richard

This should be a simple fix, as the folks above have mentioned. Help us out!

Again this is still broken in the latest release of 5.0.x and 5.1.x, why can't this be fixed? It should be so simple!

Noted in 5.0.40 changelog.

Binary distributions for Solaris and Mac OS X 
did not include shared libraries.

Resetting report to NDI: Does this fix need to
be/will this fix be propagated to 5.1.x?

Please include the shared libraries in the Mac OS X version ob the package installer. It is a two step process to install MySQL whenever you want shared libraries and to be able to use with PHP or other apps.

This is a real showstopper! Please rectify ASAP.

As a side note: please provide shared and static libraries always as universal binaries for ppc, ppc64, i386 and x86_64 so a user compiling a universal binary can link to universal binary library. If only the "current" architecture is installed, a universal binary application can not be created in one step.

I'm going to ping again on this, quite a number of us have asked for this feature and it's trivial to provide it. I really do not understand why this has not been done yet. It is a major barrier to those trying to run on Mac OS X.

I'll second that, I still need to recompile which is quite a hassle...

Shard libraries are included from 5.0.40 and 5.1.20

Noted in 5.1.20 changelog.