DBIish fails to load mysqlclient on macOS High Sierra

[vrurg]

When trying to use mysql driver I get the following exception:

DBIish: DBDish::mysql needs 'mysqlclient', not found

The client is installed with MacPorts with libraries in /opt/local/lib/mysql56/mysql. I tried both symlinking mysqlclient.dyld into /opt/local/lib and setting DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. Uselessly.

Things are working smoothly for Oracle driver though.

Perl6 ver: This is Rakudo Star version 2018.06 built on MoarVM version 2018.06
macOS 10.13.6

[vrurg]

I forgot to mention that due to changes logic of the latest macOS versions environment-variable based loading of dynamic libraries doesn't work anymore. In my case the problem was triggered by the fact that I was either used a local installation of rakudo in ~/perl6 or rakudobrew. In both cases binaries are installed under a different base path than the required dynamic libraries. The easy fix is to symlink required libs into either ~/perl6/lib or ~/.rakudobrew/moar-20XX-YY/install/lib.

I'm not closing this ticket because it would be great to somehow get around this macOS peculiarity by, say, making it possible to manually define additional paths to look for the libraries.