I'm trying to install the ODBC Connector for Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion). The .dmg installer fails at the last minute with an uninformative error message: "**The installation failed.** The Installer encountered an error that caused the installation to fail. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance." There is also a message bar across the top of the installer window that runs out and does not scroll: "There were errors with the installation. You may want to try i[".
The installer has succeeded in putting libmyodbc5w.so in /usr/local/lib/ and myodbc-installer in /usr/local/bin/. Now, the Read Me file in the .dmg installer says that there should also be a library file libymodbc3S.*, but this has not been installed by the .dmg installer, and it does not exist in the .tar.gz distribution. Is this an error in the documentation, or a missing file?
Furthermore, the instructions in
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/connector-odbc-installation-binary-macosx.html (5.6 Reference Manual :: 22.1.3.3 Installing Connector/ODBC on Mac OS X) are evidently incompletely updated from a previous version. Step 2 reads "Extract the archive: shell> tar xvzf mysql-connector-odbc-5.x.y-osx10.z-x86-(32|64)bit.tar.gz". This is fine: the file I've got is 5.2.5, osx10.7, and 32bit. Step 3 is non-version-specific.
But Step 4 reads "Finally, register the driver with iODBC using the myodbc3i tool you just installed: shell> myodbc3i -a -d -t"MySQL ODBC 3.51 Driver;Driver=/usr/local/lib/libmyodbc3.so;Setup=/usr/local/lib/libmyodbc3S.so"
To verify the installed drivers, either use the ODBC Administrator application or the myodbc3i utility: shell> myodbc3i -q -d". This is out of date -- I'm dealing with the 5.2.5 driver, not 3.51, and the filenames are not what I have.
What do I need to do to register the driver? Is there a missing setup file? How should the command *actually* read?
TIA,
Jeff