Hi All Here is the solution for freeradius 1.0.5 on Mac OS X with mysql 5.0. The general location of includes and libraries are in the following folder System Include: /usr/include System Library: /usr/lib But the mysql includes and libraries are placed in the following folder MySQL Include: /usr/local/mysql/include MySQL Library: /usr/local/mysql/lib Even if you try to pass the location with --with-mysql-include-dir or --with-mysql-lib-dir the configure script fails to get the required files A workaround is as follows 1) Create a link from the System Include and Library folder with the name as "mysql/include" and "mysql/lib" to MySQL Include and Library. Hence the files in System Include and Library would look as follows: System Library$ls -la ......... ......... mysql/lib-->/usr/local/mysql/lib ......... ......... System Include$ls -la ......... ......... mysql/include-->/usr/local/mysql/include ......... ......... 2) Copy all the includes and libraries from MySQL Include and Library folder to System Include and Library folders. 3) Follow the instructions to compile. During make you will get a error stating to re-run "ranlib" on "libmysqlclient.a" 4) Delete the file from the path as referred in the error. This error is because the system will have 2 copies of the same file one at MySQL Library and second at System Library. 5) Re-run "make" followed my make install HTH. Regards & Thanks ================ Mahesh S Kudva ----------------------------------------------- Robosoft Technologies - Come home to Technology