NAME
    Alien::MySQL - Find or build libmysqlclient client library

SYNOPSIS
        use Alien::MySQL;
        use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;

        WriteMakefile(
            ...
            CONFIGURE_REQUIRES => {
                'Alien::MySQL' => 0,
            },
            CCFLAGS => Alien::MySQL->cflags,
            LIBS    => Alien::MySQL->libs,
        );

DESCRIPTION
    This module provides the MySQL C client library (libmysqlclient). It
    will use the system library if available, or download and build from
    source if necessary.

INSTALLING DBD::mysql
    For "share" installs, "Alien::MySQL" bundles "mysql_config" in
    "Alien::MySQL->bin_dir". Prepend it to "PATH" when installing
    DBD::mysql:

        PATH="$(perl -MAlien::MySQL -e 'print join(":", Alien::MySQL->bin_dir, $ENV{PATH})')" \
            cpanm DBD::mysql

    Alternatively, point "DBD_MYSQL_CONFIG" directly to the bundled
    "mysql_config" (on "share" installs):

        DBD_MYSQL_CONFIG="$(perl -MAlien::MySQL -e 'print Alien::MySQL->dist_dir')/bin/mysql_config" \
            cpanm DBD::mysql

    Note: DBD::mysql's Makefile.PL validates "--libs" with Devel::CheckLib,
    which rejects "-Wl,-rpath" flags returned by "Alien::MySQL->libs" on
    "share" installs; using "mysql_config" via "PATH" or "DBD_MYSQL_CONFIG"
    avoids this issue.

METHODS
    Inherits all methods from Alien::Base.

  libs, libs_static
    Overridden to add "-Wl,-rpath" flags on share installs so the dynamic
    linker can find the bundled libmysqlclient at runtime.

SEE ALSO
    Alien::Base, <https://dev.mysql.com/doc/c-api/en/>

AUTHOR
    vividsnow

LICENSE
    This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
    the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.