A couple of days ago I made Rekall work with MySQL on OS X. And now I’m not really using it!
There is a big showstopper for maintaining german content (or in any other language that uses more than the 7 bit ASCII character set): Rekall (on the Mac) doesn’t handle Unicode correctly. Here’s a short sample: to the left the expected display (from phpMyAdmin), to the right the screen shot from Rekall:
I had some trouble getting Rekall to work with my MySQL server, but in the end I succeeded. Here’s what I needed:
The short road installing just the binaries lead to an error:
dlcompat: Library not loaded:
/usr/local/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.14.dylib
The reason is that the original MySQL binaries are built with the --disable-shared flag and contain only the static libraries instead of the dynamic ones.