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Update README to address issues installing on newer Mac OS #1051

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Expand Up @@ -91,6 +91,17 @@ MySQL directory, use the `--with-mysql-dir` or `--with-mysql-config` options abo
If you have not done so already, you will need to install the XCode select tools by running
`xcode-select --install`.

If you recieve the following error `ld: library not found for -lssl` when installing you can
do one of the following to fix the issue.

* Add the path of the openssl lib dir to the `$LIBRARY_PATH` environement variable. You could do this by adding `export LIBRARY_PATH=$LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib/` to your `.bash_profile`, `.zshrc`, etc. (If you used something other than homebrew to install openssl you'll need to replace `/usr/local/opt/openssl/` with the path to
where openssl is installed on your machine)

#### OR

* You can specify the paths using [Bundler Build Options](https://bundler.io/man/bundle-config.1.html#BUILD-OPTIONS) like this: `bundle config build.mysql2 "-- --with-ldflags=-L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib --with-cppflags=-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include"`. (Again if you install openssl with something other than homebrew you'll need to replace
`/usr/local/opt/openssl/` with the path to where openssl is installed on your machine)

### Windows

Make sure that you have Ruby and the DevKit compilers installed. We recommend
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